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

Oxford Scholarship Online: Philosophy Available online

Oxford Scholarship Online: Philosophy

Oxford Scholarship Online: Philosophy Available online

Oxford Scholarship Online: Philosophy
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

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