The African philosophy reader : a text with readings /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Coetzee, P. H. 1949- Roux, A. P. J. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, 2003. |
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| Retention: | Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Preface to the first edition
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Discourses on Africa
- 1.1. The Struggle For Reason in Africa
- 1.2. Categories of Cross-Cultural Cognition and the African Condition
- 1.3. On Decolonizing African Religions
- 1.4. Negritude: Literature and Ideology
- 1.5. Moving the Centre: Towards a Pluralism of Cultures
- 1.6. Ideology and Culture: The African Experience
- 1.7. The Critique of Eurocentrism and the Practice of African Philosophy
- 1.8. Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity
- 1.9. Is There an African Philosophy in Existence Today?
- References
- Chapter 2. Trends in African Philosophy
- 2.1. The Status of Father Tempels and Ethnophilosophy in the Discourse of African Philosophy
- 2.2. Francophone African Philosophy
- 2.3. Four Trends in Current African Philosophy
- 2.4. An Alienated Literature
- 2.5. African 'Philosophy': Deconstructive and Reconstructive Challenges
- Chapter 3. Metaphysical Thinking in Africa
- 3.1. Themes in African Metaphysics
- 3.2. Eniyan: The Yoruba Concept of a Person
- 3.3. The Concept of Cause in African Philosophy
- 3.4. Metaphysics, Religion, and Yoruba Traditional Thought
- 3.5. Self as a Problem in African Philosophy
- References
- Chapter 4. Epistemology and the Tradition in Africa
- 4.1. African Epistemology
- 4.2. The Philosophy of Ubuntu and Ubuntu as a Philosophy
- 4.3. The Concept of Truth in the Akan Language
- 4.4. Logic and Rationality
- 4.5. African Heritage and Contemporary Life
- References
- Chapter 5. Morality in African Thought
- 5.1. Particularity in morality and its relations to community
- 5.2. The Moral Foundation of an African Culture
- 5.3. Person and Community in African Thought
- 5.4. An Akan Perspective on Human Rights
- 5.5. The Ethics of Ubuntu
- 5.6. Primacy of the Ethical Order Over the Economic Order: Reflections for an Ethical Economy
- References
- Chapter 6. Race and Gender
- 6.1. South African Women and the Ties That Bind
- 6.2. Should Women Love 'Wisdom'?
- 6.3. Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections
- 6.4. Visualizing the Body
- 6.5. Essence of Cultures and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism
- 6.6. The Color of Reason: The Idea of 'Race' in Kant's Anthropology
- References
- Chapter 7. Justice and Restitution in African Political Thought
- 7.1. Historic Titles in Law
- 7.2. I Conquer, Therefore I am the Sovereign: Reflections Upon Sovereignty, Constitutionalism, and Democracy in Zimbabwe and South Africa
- 7.3. Producing Knowledge in Africa Today
- 7.4. Reconciliation and Social Justice in Southern Africa: The Zimbabwe Experience