The African philosophy reader : a text with readings / edited by P.H. Coetzee and A.P.J. Roux.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Preface to the First Edition -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright Acknowledgements -- Ch. 1. Discourses on Africa -- The struggle for reason in Africa / Mogobe B. Ramose -- Categories of cross-cultural cognition and the African condition / Emevwo Biakolo -- On decolonizing African religions / Kwasi Wiredu -- Negritude: Literature and ideology / F. Abiola Irele -- Moving the centre: Towards a pluralism of cultures / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o -- Ideology and culture: The African experience / H. Odera Oruka -- The critique of Eurocentrism and the practice of African Philosophy / Tsenay Serequeberhan -- Black Consciousness and the quest for a true humanity / Steve B. Biko -- Is there an African philosophy in existence today? / Issiaka P. Laleye -- Ch. 2. Trends in African philosophy -- The status of Father Tempels and ethnophilosophy in the discourse of African philosophy / Moya Deacon -- Francophone African philosophy / F. Abiola Irele -- Four trends in current African philosophy / H. Odera Oruka -- An alienated literature / Paulin J. Hountondji -- African 'philosophy': Deconstructive and reconstructive challenges / Lucius Outlaw -- Ch. 3. Metaphysical thinking in Africa -- Themes in African metaphysics / Lebisa J. Teffo and Abraham P. J. Roux -- Eniyan: The Yoruba concept of a person / Segun Gbadegesin -- The concept of cause in African thought / Godwin S. Sogolo -- Metaphysics, religion, and Yoruba traditional thought / Olusegun Oladipo -- Self as a problem in African philosophy / Chukwudum B. Okolo -- Ch. 4. Epistemology and the tradition in Africa -- African epistemology / Didier N. Kaphagawani and Jeanette G. Malherbe -- The philosophy of ubuntu and ubuntu as a philosophy / Mogobe B. Ramose -- The concept of trust in the Akan language / Kwasi Wiredu -- Logic and rationality / Godwin G. Sogolo -- African heritage and contemporary life / Subairi B. Nasseem -- Ch. 5. Morality in African thought -- Particularity in morality and its relation to community / Pieter H. Coetzee -- The moral foundations of an African culture / Kwasi Wiredu -- Person and community in African thought / Kwame Gyekye -- An Akan perspective on human rights / Kwasi Wiredu -- The ethics of ubuntu / Mogobe B. Ramose -- Primacy of the ethical order over the economic order: Reflections for an ethical economy / Musambi Malongi Ya-Mona -- Ch. 6. Race and gender -- South African women and the ties that bind / Jennifer R. Wilkinson -- Should woman love 'wisdom'? / Gail M. Presbey -- Race, culture, identity: Misunderstood connections / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Visualizing the body / Oyeronke Oyewumi -- Essence of cultures and a sense of history: A feminist critique of cultural essentialism / Uma Narayan -- The colour of reason: The idea of 'race' in Kant's anthropology / Emmanuel C. Eze -- Ch. 7. Justice and restitution in African political thought -- Historic titles in law / Mogobe B. Ramose -- I conquer, therefore I am the sovereign: Reflections upon sovereignty, constitutionalism, and democracy in Zimbabwe and South Africa / Mogobe B. Ramose -- Producing knowledge in Africa today / Paulin J. Hountondji -- Reconciliation and social justice in southern Africa: The Zimbabwe experience / Ibbo Mandaza -- Rescuing the post-colonial state of Africa: A reconceptualization of the role of the civil society / Eghosa E. Osaghae -- Neo-dependency and Africa's fragmentation / Ali A. Mazrui -- Ch. 8. Africa in the global context -- Later Marxist morality: Its relevance for Africa's post-colonial situation / Pieter H. Coetzee -- Rethinking communities in a global context / D. A. Masolo -- Globalization and African Renaissance: An ethical reflection / M. F. Murobe -- Alienation and the African-American experience / Howard McGary -- 'African Renaissance': A northbound gaze / Mogobe B. Ramose -- Negritude and the gods of equity / Wole Soyinka -- Globalization and ubuntu / Mogobe B. Ramose -- References -- index.

"The African Philosophy Reader, Second Edition, is a substantially revised and greatly enhanced collection of writings on African philosophy. Editors P.H. Coetzee and A.P.J. Roux have brought together thirty-seven philosophers, thirty-three of whom are black Africans, to present the most current philosophical discussions. Divided 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."--Publisher description.

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