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The struggle for meaning : reflections on philosophy, culture, and democracy in Africa /
"The Struggle for Meaning is a landmark publication by one of African philosophy's leading figures, Paulin J. Hountondji, best known for his critique of ethnophilosophy in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In this volume, he responds with autobiographical and philosophical reflection to the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Center for International Studies,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Research in international studies. Africa series ;
no. 78. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Translator's Acknowledgments
- Part I: Discovering Husserl
- 1 Landmarks
- 1. From Porto-Novo to Rue d'Ulm
- 2. Rationality as a Problem
- 2 The Idea of Science
- 1. An African Concern
- 2. The Scientific Demand
- 3. Truth and the Good
- 4. The Interconnection of Truths
- 5. The Language of Things
- 6. The Impossible Closure
- Part II: Critique of Ethnophilosophy
- 3 Anger
- 1. From Husserl to Tempels
- 2. An Exceptional Crucible: Présence Africaine
- 3. The Copenhagen Presentation
- 4. A "Set of Texts"
- 5. Developments.
- 4 The Issues at Stake
- 1. Political Anchoring
- 2. Theoretical Stakes
- 3. Some Readings
- Part III: Positions
- 5 A Polluted Debate
- 1. The Elegance of the Elders
- 2. Muddying the Issues
- 3. The Nationalist Reaction
- 4. Marxists and Anti-Marxists
- 5. Initial Responses
- 6 Rootedness and Freedom
- 1. The Time for Rereadings
- 2. Linguistic Relativity and Philosophy
- 3. The Particular and the Universal
- 4. The Field of the Thinkable
- 7 Reappropriation
- 2. A Rampant Pragmatism
- 3. Variation on "Distance"
- 4. The Impossible De-linking.
- 5. The Appropriation of Knowledge
- 6. Reappropriation
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.