ISBN:
0-253-20775-4 (pbk.)
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978-0-253-20775-3 (pbk.)
,
0-253-30271-4 (cloth)
,
978-0-253-30271-7 (cloth)
,
0-7486-0496-0
Language:
English
Pages:
301 Seiten
Edition:
Second edition
Series Statement:
African Systems of Thought
Keywords:
Afrika, Subsahara Philosophie
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Identität
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Ethnophilosophie
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Kulturanthropologie
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Kagame, Alexis [Leben und Werk]
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Mbiti, John S. [Leben und Werk]
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Mudimbe, Valentin Y. [Leben und Werk]
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Oruka, Henry Odera [Leben und Werk]
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Tempels, Placide [Leben und Werk]
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Towa, Marcien [Leben und Werk]
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Wiredu, Kwasi [Leben und Werk]
Abstract:
Is there an African philosophy? Addressing a question that has persisted over the last half century, Kenyan philosopher D. A. Masolo traces the history of the major themes, debates, and participants in African philosophy since the 1940s. His purview includes Francophone and Anglophone philosophers in both the analytic and phenomenological traditions. African thinkers, Masolo argues, have used philosophy as the primary vehicle for theoretical articulation of their identities and as the means for contesting identities imposed by outsiders.Principal topics include Placide Tempels and the setting of ethnophilosphy; language and reality in the thought of Alexis Kagame; John Mbiti's religioos ethnology; the excavation of Africa in western discours as analyzed by Fabien Eboussi-Boulaga, Marcien Towa, and V. Y. Mudimbe; and the role of reason in the thought of Paulin Hountondji, Kwasi Wiredu, and H. Odera Oruka. Like other philosophical systems and traditions, Masolo concludes, African philosophy has grown out of particular cultural circumstances and now embraces many different constructions of African reality, problems, and methods of acquiring meaningful knowledge. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Logocentrism and emotivism: two systems in struggle for control of identity -- Tempels and the setting of ethnophilosophy -- Systematic ethnophilosophy -- Language and reality -- Cultures without time? Mbiti's religious ethnology -- Mysticism, science, philosophy, and rationality: the analytic point of view -- Excavating Africa in Western discourse -- "Tradition" and "Modernity": the role of reason -- Conclusion: Experience and African philosophy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 275-292
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