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Author: Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1997-02-10
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780631203391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPostcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader sets out a timely and powerful agenda for contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean, and African American philosophy.
Author: Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008-07-04
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780822341956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA philosophical argument that rationality is based on, or produced from, difference, and is not only worth retaining but necessary in a culturally diverse world.
Author: Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1998-02-04
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780631203384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together canonical philosophical texts from African, African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black European thinkers, this major new anthology is designed to serve both as a textbook and as the authoritative reference volume in Africana philosophical and cultural studies.
Author: Chin Ce
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2014-04-02
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9783603736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPost Colonial Identities revisits issues regarding the newer literature within the expansive African heritage of diverse regional and national groupings. It is poised at substantiating the uniformity of Africa in terms of literary and cultural movements, and lending some inter-disciplinary insights on the whole body of literature through twentieth century history.
Author: P.H. Coetzee
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-03-01
Total Pages: 1027
ISBN-13: 1135884188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDivided into eight sections, each with introductory essays, the selections offer rich and detailed insights into a diverse multinational philosophical landscape. Revealed in this pathbreaking work is the way in which traditional philosophical issues related to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology, for instance, take on specific forms in Africa's postcolonial struggles. Much of its moral, political, and social philosophy is concerned with the turbulent processes of embracing modern identities while protecting ancient cultures.
Author: Richard H. Bell
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780415939379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Alena Rettová
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-11-29
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1000488101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this edited collection contributors examine key themes, sources and methods in contemporary African Philosophy, building on a wide-ranging understanding of what constitutes African philosophy, and drawing from a variety of both oral and written texts of different genres. Part one of the volume examines how African philosophy has reacted to burning issues, ranging from contemporary ethical questions on how to integrate technological advancements into human life; to one of philosophy’s prime endeavours, which is establishing the conditions of knowledge; to eternal ontological and existential questions on the nature of being, time, memory and death. Part two reflects on the (re)definition of philosophy from an African vantage point and African philosophy’s thrust to create its own canon, archive and resources to study African concepts, artefacts, practices and texts from the perspective of intellectual history. The volume aims to make a contribution to the academic debate on African philosophy and philosophy more broadly, challenging orthodox definitions and genres, in favour of a broadening of the discipline’s self-understanding and locales. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African philosophy and comparative philosophy.
Author: Ivan Karp
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2000-11-22
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780253214171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book assesses the direction and impact of African philosophy as well as its future role. What is the intellectual, social, cultural, and political territory of African philosophy? What directions will African philosophy take in the future? What problems will it face? In 10 probing essays by distinguished African, European, and American scholars, African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry examines the role of African philosophy at the opening of the new millennium. Here philosophy cuts across disciplinary boundaries to embrace ideas taken from history, literary studies, anthropology, and art. Addressing topics such as the progress of philosophical discourse, knowledge and modes of thought, the relevance of philosophy for cultures that are still largely based on traditional values, and the meaning of philosophy to cultures and individuals in the process of modernization, this volume presents today's best thinking about the concerns and practices that constitute African experience. New views about personhood, freedom, responsibility, progress, development, the role of the state, and life in civil society emerge from these broad-based considerations of the crisis of the postcolonial African state. In a lively fashion this diverse book shows how philosophical questions can be applied to interpretations of culture and reveals the multifaceted nature of philosophical discourse in the multiple and variable settings that exist in contemporary Africa.
Author: Jan Fernback
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1135948666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA critical guide to some of the most important issues in modern African philosophy. Topics include the legacy of colonialism, the challenges of post-independence Africa and African oral and written philosophical traditions.
Author: F. Ochieng'-Odhiambo
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781433107504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an excellent orientation to, and a logical development of, the major trends and issues that have dominated discussions in African philosophy since the publication of Placide Tempels' Bantu Philosophy in 1945. Views of some of the best-known African philosophers, such as Kwasi Wiredu, Paulin Hountondji, H. Odera Oruka, Peter Bodunrin, and D. A. Masolo are discussed in detail. The text takes into account, in the form of quotations or referencing, the views of several other philosophers who have had something to say about African philosophy. This book facilitates an excellent orientation on African philosophy at the undergraduate level. Those pursuing African philosophy at the graduate level will find the text refreshingly novel.
