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.

מידע ביבליוגרפי
מחבר ראשי: Masolo, D. A.
מחבר תאגידי: International African Institute
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 1994.
סדרה:African systems of thought.
גישה מקוונת:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=23116
תוכן הענינים:
  • 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.