A companion to African philosophy /
A companion to African philosophy /
edited by Kwasi Wiredu ; advisory editors, William E. Abraham, Abiola Irele, and Ifeanyi A. Menkiti.
- xx, 587 pages ; 26 cm.
- Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 28 .
- Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 28. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: African Philosophy in Our Time -- Egypt: Ancient History of African Philosophy / African Philosophers in the Greco-Roman Era / Precolonial African Philosophy in Arabic / Some Nineteenth-Century African Political Thinkers / Africana Philosophy: Origins and Prospects / Contemporary Anglophone African Philosophy: A Survey / Philosophy in South Africa Under and After Apartheid / Philosophy in North Africa / The Light and the Shadow: Zera Yacob and Walda Heywat: Two Ethiopian Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century / Zera Yacob and Traditional Ethiopian Philosophy / Anton Wilhelm Amo / Amo's Critique of Descartes' Philosophy of Mind / Albert Luthuli, Steve Biko, and Nelson Mandela: The Philosophical Basis of their Thought and Practice / Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) / Theory and the Actuality of Existence: Fanon and Cabral / Alexis Kagame (1912-1981): Life and Thought / Post-Independence African Political Philosophy / Some Methodological Controversies in African Philosophy / Sage Philosophy: Its Methodology, Results, Significance, and Future / Logic in the Acholi Language / Yoruba Moral Epistemology / Ifa': An Account of a Divination System and Some Concluding Epistemological Questions / Toward a Theory of Destiny / On the Normative Conception of a Person / African Conceptions of a Person: A Critical Survey / Quasi-Materialism: A Contemporary African Philosophy of Mind / Religion in African Culture: Some Conceptual Issues / Okot p'Bitek's Critique of Western Scholarship on African Religion / Islam in Africa: Examining the Notion of an African Identity within the Islamic World / Some African Reflections on Biomedical and Environmental Ethics / Ethics and Morality in Yoruba Culture / Aesthetic Inquiry and the Music of Africa / Art and Community: A Social Conception of Beauty and Individuality / The Many-layered Aesthetics of African Art / Government by Consensus: An Analysis of a Traditional Form of Democracy / Democracy, Kingship, and Consensus: A South African Perspective / Fellowship Associations as a Foundations for Liberal Democracy in Africa / Economic Globalism, Deliberative Democracy, and the State in Africa / Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Violence / Western and African Communitarianism: A Comparison / Human Rights in the African Context / The Politics of Memory and Forgetting After Apartheid / The Question of an African Jurisprudence: Some Hermeneutic Reflections / Knowledge as a Development Issues / African Philosophy and African Literature / Philosophy and Literature in Francophone Africa / Feminism and Africa: Impact and Limits of the Metaphysics of Gender / Theophile Obenga -- D. A. Masolo -- Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Pieter Boele Van Hensbroek -- Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr. -- Barry Hallen -- Mabogo P. More -- Mourad Wahba -- Claude Sumner -- Teodros Kiros -- William E. Abraham -- Kwasi Wiredu -- Mabogo P. More -- Teodros Kiros -- Tsenay Serequeberhan -- Liboire Kagabo -- Olufemi Taiwo -- A. G. A. Bello -- Kibujjo M. Kalumba -- Victor Ocaya -- Barry Hallen -- Olufemi Taiwo -- Segun Gbadegesin -- Ifeanyi A. Menkiti -- Didier Njirayamanda Kaphagawani -- Safro Kwame -- Olusegun Oladipo -- Samuel O. Imbo -- Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Godfrey B. Tangwa -- John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji -- Kofi Agawu -- Nkiru Nzegwu -- Ajume H. Wingo -- Edward Wamala -- Joe Teffo -- Ajume H. Wingo -- George Carew -- Ali A. Mazrui -- D. A. Masolo -- Francis M. Deng -- Pieter Duvenage -- John Murungi -- Paulin J. Hountondji -- Anthony Kwame Appiah -- Jean-Godefroy Bidima -- Nkiru Nzegwu. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47.
"This volume, comprised of 42 newly commissioned and 5 adapted essays, provides comprehensive coverage of African philosophy, ranging across disciplines and throughout the ages." "The essays encompass all the main branches of philosophy - logic, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, religion, and politics, among others - as these have occupied the African mind in both communal and individual conceptions. A special feature of the volume is its historical dimension, including a substantial treatment of ancient African philosophy as encountered in ancient Egypt, an extended study of medieval North African thinkers, an enlightening discussion of pre-colonial African philosophy, and a history of African political thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
0631207511 9780631207511
2003005561
Philosophy, African
B5305 / .C66 2004
199.6
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: African Philosophy in Our Time -- Egypt: Ancient History of African Philosophy / African Philosophers in the Greco-Roman Era / Precolonial African Philosophy in Arabic / Some Nineteenth-Century African Political Thinkers / Africana Philosophy: Origins and Prospects / Contemporary Anglophone African Philosophy: A Survey / Philosophy in South Africa Under and After Apartheid / Philosophy in North Africa / The Light and the Shadow: Zera Yacob and Walda Heywat: Two Ethiopian Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century / Zera Yacob and Traditional Ethiopian Philosophy / Anton Wilhelm Amo / Amo's Critique of Descartes' Philosophy of Mind / Albert Luthuli, Steve Biko, and Nelson Mandela: The Philosophical Basis of their Thought and Practice / Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) / Theory and the Actuality of Existence: Fanon and Cabral / Alexis Kagame (1912-1981): Life and Thought / Post-Independence African Political Philosophy / Some Methodological Controversies in African Philosophy / Sage Philosophy: Its Methodology, Results, Significance, and Future / Logic in the Acholi Language / Yoruba Moral Epistemology / Ifa': An Account of a Divination System and Some Concluding Epistemological Questions / Toward a Theory of Destiny / On the Normative Conception of a Person / African Conceptions of a Person: A Critical Survey / Quasi-Materialism: A Contemporary African Philosophy of Mind / Religion in African Culture: Some Conceptual Issues / Okot p'Bitek's Critique of Western Scholarship on African Religion / Islam in Africa: Examining the Notion of an African Identity within the Islamic World / Some African Reflections on Biomedical and Environmental Ethics / Ethics and Morality in Yoruba Culture / Aesthetic Inquiry and the Music of Africa / Art and Community: A Social Conception of Beauty and Individuality / The Many-layered Aesthetics of African Art / Government by Consensus: An Analysis of a Traditional Form of Democracy / Democracy, Kingship, and Consensus: A South African Perspective / Fellowship Associations as a Foundations for Liberal Democracy in Africa / Economic Globalism, Deliberative Democracy, and the State in Africa / Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Violence / Western and African Communitarianism: A Comparison / Human Rights in the African Context / The Politics of Memory and Forgetting After Apartheid / The Question of an African Jurisprudence: Some Hermeneutic Reflections / Knowledge as a Development Issues / African Philosophy and African Literature / Philosophy and Literature in Francophone Africa / Feminism and Africa: Impact and Limits of the Metaphysics of Gender / Theophile Obenga -- D. A. Masolo -- Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Pieter Boele Van Hensbroek -- Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr. -- Barry Hallen -- Mabogo P. More -- Mourad Wahba -- Claude Sumner -- Teodros Kiros -- William E. Abraham -- Kwasi Wiredu -- Mabogo P. More -- Teodros Kiros -- Tsenay Serequeberhan -- Liboire Kagabo -- Olufemi Taiwo -- A. G. A. Bello -- Kibujjo M. Kalumba -- Victor Ocaya -- Barry Hallen -- Olufemi Taiwo -- Segun Gbadegesin -- Ifeanyi A. Menkiti -- Didier Njirayamanda Kaphagawani -- Safro Kwame -- Olusegun Oladipo -- Samuel O. Imbo -- Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Godfrey B. Tangwa -- John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji -- Kofi Agawu -- Nkiru Nzegwu -- Ajume H. Wingo -- Edward Wamala -- Joe Teffo -- Ajume H. Wingo -- George Carew -- Ali A. Mazrui -- D. A. Masolo -- Francis M. Deng -- Pieter Duvenage -- John Murungi -- Paulin J. Hountondji -- Anthony Kwame Appiah -- Jean-Godefroy Bidima -- Nkiru Nzegwu. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47.
"This volume, comprised of 42 newly commissioned and 5 adapted essays, provides comprehensive coverage of African philosophy, ranging across disciplines and throughout the ages." "The essays encompass all the main branches of philosophy - logic, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, religion, and politics, among others - as these have occupied the African mind in both communal and individual conceptions. A special feature of the volume is its historical dimension, including a substantial treatment of ancient African philosophy as encountered in ancient Egypt, an extended study of medieval North African thinkers, an enlightening discussion of pre-colonial African philosophy, and a history of African political thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
0631207511 9780631207511
2003005561
Philosophy, African
B5305 / .C66 2004
199.6