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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Masolo, D. A. (-)
Autor Corporativo: International African Institute (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press 1994.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
African systems of thought.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.