African philosophy in search of identity /

A Kenyan philosopher surveys themes and debates in African philosophy over the last five decades. Masolo's purview includes Francophone and Anglophone philosophers in both the analytic and phenomenological traditions. -- Publisher description.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Masolo, D. A.
Corporate Author: International African Institute
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 1994.
Series:African systems of thought.
Subjects:
Philosophy, African.
Philosophie africaine.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Intellectual life.
Philosophie
Afrikaanse filosofie.
Philosophie > Afrique > 20e siècle.
Africa, Sub-Saharan > Intellectual life.
Afrique subsaharienne > Vie intellectuelle.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Afrika
Afrique noire > Vie intellectuelle.
Philosophy
Africa
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Logocentrism and emotivism: two systems in struggle for control of identity
  • Tempels and the setting of ethnophilosophy
  • Systematic ethnophilosophy
  • Language and reality
  • Cultures without time? Mbiti's religious ethnology
  • Mysticism, science, philosophy, and rationality: the analytic point of view
  • Excavating Africa in Western discourse
  • "Tradition" and "Modernity": the role of reason
  • Conclusion: Experience and African philosophy.

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