African philosophy : an anthology / edited by Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze.
Material type: TextSeries: Blackwell philosophy anthologies ; 5.Publisher: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1998Description: xiii, p.494ISBN:- 0631203389 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0631203370 (alk. paper)
- 199.6
- B5305. A36 1997
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Includes index.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Pt. I. What is African Philosophy? -- 1. African Philosophy: Yesterday and Today -- 2. Philosophy and Post-Colonial Africa -- 3. African, African American, Africana Philosophy -- 4. The African Foundations of Greek Philosophy -- 5. Contemporary Moslem Philosophies in North Africa -- Pt. II. Human Nature: Mind, Body, and Self-Identity -- 6. The Relation of Okra (Soul) and Honam (Body): An Akan Conception -- 7. "Chi" in Igbo Cosmology -- 8. The Sociality of Self -- Pt. III. Philosophy, Politics, and Society -- 9. Leaders must not be Masters -- 10. Consciencism -- 11. Two Traditions in African American Political Philosophy -- 12. Universal Dimensions of Black Struggle -- I. Black Revolution -- II. Human Rights, Civil Rights -- 13. Philosophy, Politics, and Power: An Afro-American Perspective -- Pt. IV. Ethics -- 14. "Mutumin Kirki": The Concept of the Good Man in Hausa -- 15. Yoruba Philosophy: Individuality, Community, and the Moral Order -- 16. Concerning Violence -- 17. Morals and the Value of Human Life -- 18. Moral Reasoning versus Racial Reasoning -- Pt. V. On Knowledge and Science -- 19. Elements of Physics in Yoruba Culture I, Culture II -- 20. "Divination": A Way of Knowing? -- 21. The Problem of Knowledge in "Divination": The Example of Ifa -- 22. The Concept of Truth in the Akan Language -- 23. African Traditional Thought and Western Science -- 24. How Not to Compare African Thought with Western Thought -- 25. Literacy, Criticism, and the Growth of Knowledge -- Pt. VI. Philosophy and Colonial Encounter -- 26. Modern Western Philosophy and African Colonialism -- 27. Discourse on Colonialism -- 28. The Wretched of the Earth -- 29. Colonialism and the Colonized: Violence and Counter-Violence -- 30. Cultural Nationalism in the Colonial Period -- 31. National Liberation and Culture (Return to the Source) -- Pt. VII. Philosophy and Race -- 32. The Conservation of Races -- 33. The Illusions of Race -- 34. Du Bois on the Invention of Race -- 35. Racism and Culture -- 36. Racism and Feminism -- Pt. VIII. Philosophy and Gender -- 37. The Woman Question: African and Western Perspectives -- 38. Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory -- 39. Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images -- 40. The Erasure of Black Women -- 41. The Curious Coincidence of Feminine and African Moralities -- Pt. IX. Philosophy and Transatlantic African Slavery -- 42. The Nature of Slavery -- 43. The Concept of Slavery -- 44. The Origin of Negro Slavery -- 45. The Interesting Narrative. -- 46. Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery -- 47. Autobiographical Acts and the Voice of the Southern Slave -- Pt. X. Ontology and the Nature of Art -- 48. Breath -- 49. Bantu Ontology -- 50. The Igbo World and Its Art -- 51. The Fourth Stage: Through the Mysteries of Ogun to the Origin of Yoruba Tragedy -- 52. The Duke's Blues -- Pt. XI. Philosophy of Religion -- 53. God, Faith, and the Nature of Knowledge -- 54. Must God Remain Greek? -- 55. The Problem of Evil: An Akan Perspective -- 56. Black Women and Men: Partnership in the 1990s -- Index.
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