Africana philosophy from ancient Egypt to the nineteenth century / Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adamson, Peter, 1972- author.

Jeffers, Chike, 1982- author.

Series:

History of philosophy without any gaps ; volume 7.

Oxford scholarship online.

A history of philosophy without any gaps ; volume 7

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, African.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (525 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

'Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century' is the first of two volumes in the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series to bring readers the story of Africana philosophy. This diverse topic is defined as philosophy emerging from and distinctively related to Africa or the African diaspora.

Contents:

Cover

Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Dates

Map

List of African Peoples Mentioned

Part I: Locating and Debating Precolonial African Philosophy

1. Something Old, Something New: Introducing Africana Philosophy

2. It's Only Human: Philosophy in Prehistoric Africa

3. Fertile Ground: Philosophy in Ancient Mesopotamia

4. Pyramid Schemes: Philosophy in Ancient Egypt

5. Father Knows Best: Moral and Political Philosophy in the Instructions

6. Heated Exchanges: Philosophy in Egyptian Narratives and Dialogues

7. Solomon, Socrates, and Other Sages: Early Ethiopian Philosophy

8. Only One Truth: Zera Yacob

9. Think for Yourself: Walda Heywat

10. From Here to Timbuktu: Sub-Saharan Islamic Philosophy

11. Renewing the Faith: The Sokoto Caliphate

12. Heard it Through the Grapevine: Oral Philosophy in Africa

13. Event Horizon: African Philosophy of Time

14. One to Rule Them All: God in African Philosophy

15. Behind the Mask: African Philosophy of the Person

16. I Am Because We Are: Communalism in African Ethics and Politics

17. The Doctor Will See You Now: Divination, Witchcraft, and Knowledge

18. Women Have No Tribe: Gender in African Tradition

19. Professionally Speaking: The Reaction Against Ethnophilosophy

20. Wise Guys: Sage Philosophy

21. Beyond the Reaction: The Continuing Relevance of Precolonial Traditions

Part II: Slavery and the Creation of Diasporic Africana Philosophy

22. Out of Africa: Slavery and the Diaspora

23. Dualist Personality: Anton Wilhelm Amo

24. Talking Book: Early Africana Writing in English

25. Young, Gifted, and Black: Phillis Wheatley

26. New England Patriot: Lemuel Haynes.

27. Letters from the Heart: Ignatius Sancho and Benjamin Banneker

28. Sons of Africa: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano

29. Liberty, Equality, Humanity: The Haitian Revolution

30. My Haitian Pen: Baron de Vastey

31. American Africans: Early Black Institutions in the US

32. Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Colonization Controversy

33. Kill or Be Killed: David Walker's Appeal

34. Religion and Pure Principles: Maria W. Stewart

35. Unnatural Causes: Hosea Easton's Treatise

36. Written by Himself: The Life of Frederick Douglass

37. Happy Holidays: Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass

38. Let Your Motto Be Resistance: Henry Highland Garnet

39. Nation Within a Nation: Martin Delany

40. I Read Men and Nations: Sojourner Truth and Frances Harper

41. Great White North: Emigration to Canada

42. Pilgrim's Progress: Alexander Crummell

43. Planting the Seeds: James Africanus Beale Horton

44. African Personality: Edward Blyden

45. Race First, Then Party: T. Thomas Fortune

46. A Common Circle: Anténor Firmin

47. Frowning at Froudacious Fabrications: J.J. Thomas and F.A. Durham

48. Though Late, It Is Liberty: Abolitionism in Brazil

49. When and Where I Enter: Anna Julia Cooper

50. American Barbarism: Ida B. Wells

51. God is a Negro: Henry McNeal Turner

52. Separate Fingers, One Hand: Booker T. Washington

53. Lifting the Veil: Introducing W.E.B. Du Bois

Notes

Further Reading

Index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 10, 2025).

ISBN:

0-19-892720-7

0-19-892718-5

OCLC:

1507695704