A Companion to African Philosophy

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Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell (2004)
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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. _

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B5305.C66 2006

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9780470700761   9780470997376   0470997370   1405145676   9780631207511   0631207511   9781405145671
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Introduction: African Philosophy in Our Time.  (pages 1–27)Kwasi Wiredu
Egypt: Ancient History of African Philosophy.  (pages 29–49)Théophile Obenga
African Philosophers in the Greco-Roman Era.  (pages 50--65)D. A. Masolo
Precolonial African Philosophy in Arabic.  (pages 66--77)Souleymane Diagne
Some Nineteenth‐Century African Political Thinkers.  (pages 78–88)Pieter Boele Van Hensbroek
Africana Philosophy: Origins and Prospects.  (pages 90–98)Lucius T. Outlaw
Contemporary Anglophone African Philosophy: A Survey.  (pages 99--148)Barry Hallen
Philosophy in South Africa Under and After Apartheid.  (pages 149–159)Mabogo P. More
Philosophy in North Africa.  (pages 161–171)Mourad Wahba
The Light and the Shadow: Zera Yacob and Walda Heywat: Two Ethiopian Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century.  (pages 172–182)Claude Sumner
Zera Yacob and Traditional Ethiopian Philosophy.  (pages 183--190)Teodros Kiros
Anton Wilhelm Amo.  (pages 191-99)William E. Abraham
Amo's Critique of Descartes' Philosophy of Mind.  (pages 200–206)Kwasi Wiredu
Albert Luthuli, Steve Biko, and Nelson Mandela: The Philosophical Basis of their Thought and Practice.  (pages 207–215)Mabogo P. More
Frantz Fanon (1925–1961).  (pages 216–224)Teodros Kiros
Theory and the Actuality of Existence: Fanon and Cabrai.  (pages 225–229)Tsenay Serequeberhan
Alexis Kagame (1912–1981): Life and Thought.  (pages 231–242)Liboire Kagabo
Post‐Independence African Political Philosophy.  (pages 243–259)Olúfémi Táíwò
Some Methodological Controversies in African Philosophy.  (pages 261–273)A. G. A. Bello
Sage Philosophy: Its Methodology, Results, Significance, and Future.  (pages 274--281)Kibujjo Kalumba
Logic in the Acholi Language.  (pages 283–295)Victor Ocaya
Yoruba Moral Epistemology.  (pages 296--303)Barry Hallen
Ifá: An Account of a Divination System and Some Concluding Epistemological Questions.  (pages 304–312)Olúfémi Táíwò
Toward a Theory of Destiny.  (pages 313–323)Segun Gbadegesin
On the Normative Conception of a Person.  (pages 324–331)Ifeanyi A. Menkiti
African Conceptions of a Person: A Critical Survey.  (pages 332–342)Didier Njirayamanda Kaphagawani
Quasi‐Materialism: A Contemporary African Philosophy of Mind.  (pages 343–351)Safro Kwame
Religion in African Culture: Some Conceptual Issues.  (pages 353–363)Olusegun Oladipo
Okot p'Bitek's Critique of Western Scholarship on African Religion.  (pages 364–373)Samuel O. Imbo
Islam in Africa: Examining the Notion of an African Identity Within the Islamic World.  (pages 374--383)Souleymane Diagne
Some African Reflections on Biomedical and Environmental Ethics.  (pages 387–395)Godfrey B. Tangwa
Ethics and Morality in Yoruba Culture.  (pages 396–403)John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji
Aesthetic Inquiry and the Music of Africa.  (pages 404–414)Kofi Agawu
Art and Community: A Social Conception of Beauty and Individuality.  (pages 415–424)Nkiru Nzegwu
The Many‐Layered Aesthetics of African Art.  (pages 425–432)Ajume H. Wingo
Government by Consensus: An Analysis of a Traditional Form of Democracy.  (pages 433–442)Edward Wamala
Democracy, Kingship, and Consensus: A South African Perspective.  (pages 443–449)Joe Teffo
Fellowship Associations as a Foundation for Liberal Democracy in Africa.  (pages 450–459)Ajume H. Wingo
Economic Globalism, Deliberative Democracy, and the State in Africa.  (pages 460–471)George Carew
Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Violence.  (pages 472–482)Ali A. Mazrui
Western and African Communitarianism: a Comparison.  (pages 483--498)D. A. Masolo
Human Rights in the African Context.  (pages 499–508)Francis M. Deng
The Politics of Memory and Forgetting After Apartheid.  (pages 509–518)Pieter Duvenage
The Question of an African Jurisprudence: Some Hermeneutic Reflections.  (pages 519–526)John Murungi
Knowledge as a Development Issue.  (pages 527–537)Paulin J. Hountondji
African Philosophy and African Literature.  (pages 538--548)Kwame Anthony Appiah
Philosophy and Literature in Francophone Africa.  (pages 549--559)Jean-Godefroy Bidima
Philosophy and Literature in Francophone Africa.  (pages 549–558)Jean-Godefory Bidima & Nicolas De Warren
Feminism and Africa: Impact and Limits of the Metaphysics of Gender.  (pages 560–569)Nkiru Nzegwu

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