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.

Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Masolo, D. A.
Соавтор: International African Institute
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 1994.
Серии:African systems of thought.
Online-ссылка:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=23116
Оглавление:
  • 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.