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Author | : Mawere, Munyaradzi |
Publisher | : Langaa RPCIG |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2016-01-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9956763012 |
Download African Philosophy and Thought Systems Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The once acrimonious debate on the existence of African philosophy has come of age, yet the need to cultivate a culture of belonging is more demanding now than ever before in many African societies. The gargantuan indelible energised chicanery waves of neo-colonialism and globalisation and their sweeping effect on Africa demand more concerted action and solutions than cul-de-sac discourses and magical realism. It is in view of this realisation that this book was born. This is a vital text for understanding contextual historical trends in the development of African philosophic ideas on the continent and how Africans could possibly navigate the turbulent catadromous waters, tangled webs and chasms of destruction, and chagrin of struggles that have engrossed Africa since the dawn of slavery and colonial projects on the continent. The book aims to generate more insights and influence national, continental, and global debates in the field of philosophy. It is accessible and handy to a wider range of readers, ranging from educators and students of African philosophy, anthropology, African studies, cultural studies, and all those concerned with the further development of African philosophy and thought systems on the African continent.
Author | : Kwame Gyekye |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781566393805 |
Download An Essay on African Philosophical Thought Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this sustained and nuanced attempt to define a genuinely African philosophy, Kwame Gyekye rejects the idea that an African philosophy consists simply of the work of Africans writing on philosophy. It must, Gyekye argues, arise from African thought itself, relate to the culture out of which it grows, and provide the possibility of a continuation of a philosophy linked to culture. Offering a philosophical clarification and theology, and ethics of the Akan of Ghana, Gyekye argues that critical analyses of specific traditional African modes of thought are necessary to develop a distinctively African philosophy as well as cultural values in the modern world. --
Author | : Olusegun Oladipo |
Publisher | : Hope Publishing Company (IL) |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lewis R. Gordon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2008-05-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521675468 |
Download An Introduction to Africana Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this undergraduate textbook Lewis R. Gordon offers the first comprehensive treatment of Africana philosophy, beginning with the emergence of an Africana (i.e. African diasporic) consciousness in the Afro-Arabic world of the Middle Ages. He argues that much of modern thought emerged out of early conflicts between Islam and Christianity that culminated in the expulsion of the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula, and from the subsequent expansion of racism, enslavement, and colonialism which in their turn stimulated reflections on reason, liberation, and the meaning of being human. His book takes the student reader on a journey from Africa through Europe, North and South America, the Caribbean, and back to Africa, as he explores the challenges posed to our understanding of knowledge and freedom today, and the response to them which can be found within Africana philosophy.
Author | : Kwasi Wiredu |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1980-04-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521296472 |
Download Philosophy and an African Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What can philosophy contribute to African culture? What can it draw from it? Could there be a truly African philosophy that goes beyond traditional folk thought? Kwasi Wiredu tries in these essays to define and demonstrate a role for contemporary African philosophers which is distinctive but by no means parochial. He shows how they can assimilate the advances of analytical philosophy and apply them to the general social and intellectual changes associated with 'modernisation' and the transition to new national identities. But we see too how they can exploit traditional resources and test the assumptions of Western philosophy against the intimations of their own language and culture. The volume as a whole presents some of the best non-technical work of a distinguished African philosopher, of importance equally to professional philosophers and to those with a more general interest in contemporary African thought and culture.
Author | : Richard H. Bell |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780415939362 |
Download Understanding African Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.
Author | : Campbell Shittu Momoh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Philosophy, African |
ISBN | : |
Download The Substance of African Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Guttorm Fløistad |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 940093517X |
Download African Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This publication is a continuation of two earlier series of chroni cles, Philosophy of the Mid-Century (Firenze 1958/59) and Con temporary Philosophy (Firenze 1968), edited by Raymond Klibansky. Like the other series, these chronicles provide a survey of significant trends in contemporary philosophical discussion from 1970 to 1985. The need for such surveys has, I believe, increased rather than decreased over the last years. The philosophical scene appears, for various reasons, more complex than ever before. The continuing process of specialization in most branches, the emergence of new schools of thought, the convergence of interest (thought not neces sarily of opinion) of different traditions upon certain problems, the increasing attention being paid to the history of philosophy in discussions of contemporary problems, and the growing signifi cance for philosophical discourse of the social, political and cul tural situation in various regions of the world are the most impor tant contributory factors. Surveys of the present kind are a valu able source of knowledge of this complexity and may as such be an assistance in renewing the understanding of one's own philo sophical problems. The surveys, it is to be hoped, may also help to strengthen a world-wide Socratic element of modern philosophy, the dialogue or Kommunikationsgemeinschaft. So far, five volumes have been prepared for the new series.
Author | : P.H. Coetzee |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1027 |
Release | : 2004-03-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1135884188 |
Download The African Philosophy Reader Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Jonathan O. Chimakonam |
Publisher | : Vernon Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 162273422X |
Download Ka Osi Sọ Onye: African Philosophy in the Postmodern Era Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection is about composing thought at the level of modernism and decomposing it at the postmodern level where many cocks might crow with African philosophy as a focal point. It has two parts: part one is titled ‘The Journey of Reason in African Philosophy’, and part two is titled ‘African Philosophy and Postmodern Thinking’. There are seven chapters in both parts. Five of the essays are reprinted here as important selections while nine are completely new essays commissioned for this book. As their titles suggest, in part one, African philosophy is unfolded in the manifestation of reason as embedded in modern thought while in part two, it draws the effect of reason as implicated in the postmodern orientation. While part one strikes at what V. Y. Mudimbe calls the “colonising structure” or the Greco-European logo-phallo-euro-centricism in thought, part two bashes the excesses of modernism and partly valorises postmodernism. In some chapters, modernism is presented as an intellectual version of communalism characterised by the cliché: ‘our people say’. Our thinking is that the voice of reason is not the voice of the people but the voice of an individual. The idea of this book is to open new vistas for the discipline of African philosophy. African philosophy is thus presented as a disagreement discourse. Without rivalry of thoughts, Africa will settle for far less. This gives postmodernism an important place, perhaps deservedly more important than history of philosophy allocates to it. It is that philosophical moment that says ‘philosophers must cease speaking like gods in their hegemonic cultural shrines and begin to converse across borders with one another’. In this conversation, the goal for African philosophers must not be to find final answers but to sustain the conversation which alone can extend human reason to its furthermost reaches.