A companion to African philosophy / edited by Kwasi Wiredu ; advisory editors, William E. Abraham, Abiola Irele, and Ifeanyi A. Menkiti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wiredu, Kwasi.

Abraham, W. E. (Willie E.), 1934-

Irele, Abiola.

Menkiti, Ifeanyi.

Series:

Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 28.

Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, African.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (610 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume of newly commissioned essays provides comprehensive coverage of African philosophy, ranging across disciplines and throughout the ages. Offers a distinctive historical treatment of African philosophy. Covers all the main branches of philosophy as addressed in the African tradition. Includes accounts of pre-colonial African philosophy and contemporary political thought.

Contents:

A Companion to African Philosophy; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction: African Philosophy in Our Time; Part I HISTORY; 1 Egypt: Ancient History of African Philosophy; 2 African Philosophers in the Greco-Roman Era; 3 Precolonial African Philosophy in Arabic; 4 Some Nineteenth-Century African Political Thinkers; 5 Africana Philosophy: Origins and Prospects; 6 Contemporary Anglophone African Philosophy: A Survey; 7 Philosophy in South Africa Under and After Apartheid; 8 Philosophy in North Africa

9 The Light and the Shadow: Zera Yacob and Walda Heywat: Two Ethiopian Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century10 Zera Yacob and Traditional Ethiopian Philosophy; 11 Anton Wilhelm Amo; 12 Amo's Critique of Descartes' Philosophy of Mind; 13 Albert Luthuli, Steve Biko, and Nelson Mandela: The Philosophical Basis of their Thought and Practice; 14 Frantz Fanon (1925-1961); 15 Theory and the Actuality of Existence: Fanon and Cabral; 16 Alexis Kagame (1912-1981): Life and Thought; 17 Post-Independence African Political Philosophy; PART II METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES

18 Some Methodological Controversies in African Philosophy19 Sage Philosophy: Its Methodology, Results, Significance, and Future; PART III LOGIC, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND METAPHYSICS; 20 Logic in the Acholi Language; 21 Yoruba Moral Epistemology; 22 Ifá: An Account of a Divination System and Some Concluding Epistemological Questions; 23 Toward a Theory of Destiny; 24 On the Normative Conception of a Person; 25 African Conceptions of a Person: A Critical Survey; 26 Quasi-Materialism: A Contemporary African Philosophy of Mind; PART IV THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

27 Religion in African Culture: Some Conceptual Issues28 Okot p'Bitek's Critique of Western Scholarship on African Religion; 29 Islam in Africa: Examining the Notion of an African Identity within the Islamic World; PART V ETHICS AND AESTHETICS; 30 Some African Reflections on Biomedical and Environmental Ethics; 31 Ethics and Morality in Yoruba Culture; 32 Aesthetic Inquiry and the Music of Africa; 33 Art and Community: A Social Conception of Beauty and Individuality; 34 The Many-Layered Aesthetics of African Art; PART VI POLITICS

35 Government by Consensus: An Analysis of a Traditional Form of Democracy36 Democracy, Kingship, and Consensus: A South African Perspective; 37 Fellowship Associations as a Foundation for Liberal Democracy in Africa; 38 Economic Globalism, Deliberative Democracy, and the State in Africa; 39 Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Violence; 40 Western and African Communitarianism: A Comparison; 41 Human Rights in the African Context; 42 The Politics of Memory and Forgetting After Apartheid; 43 The Question of an African Jurisprudence: Some Hermeneutic Reflections; PART VII SPECIAL TOPICS

44 Knowledge as a Development Issue

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611215064

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OCLC:

184983712