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UNINA9910783941803321 |
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Autore |
Bell Richard H. |
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Titolo |
Understanding African philosophy : a cross-cultural approach to classical and contemporary issues / / Richard H. Bell |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-94865-8 |
0-203-80074-5 |
0-203-80078-8 |
1-280-07195-8 |
1-135-94866-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (206 p.) |
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Collana |
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Philosophy and the Human Situation |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Philosophy, African |
Philosophy - Africa |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-181) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Understanding Another Culture -- Understanding Others and Ourselves -- A Procedure from an Aesthetic Point of View -- "Found in Translation" -- 2. Foundations of Modern African Philosophy -- Ethnophilosophy and the "Negritude" Movement -- Critical, Scientific Philosophy -- Sage Philosophy -- 3. Liberation and Postcolonial African Philosophy -- African Humanism and Socialism -- Postcolonial African Thought -- The Question of "Race" -- 4. African Moral Philosophy I: Community and Justice -- Persons, Individualism, and Communalism -- Suffering and Injustice -- Poverty and Human Development -- 5. African Moral Philosophy II: Truth and Reconciliation -- Linking Communalism, Ubuntu, and Restorative Justice -- Understanding the Grammar of Justice after Apartheid -- "Not All Storytelling Heals": Criticisms of the TRC Process -- Justice and Political Transformation -- 6. Narrative in African Philosophy: Orality and Icons -- The Philosophical Significance of Oral Narratives -- Rational Dialogue, Democracy, and the Village Palaver -- Finding Pictures and Fictitious Narratives "Surprising" -- Iconic Forms and the Aesthetic Consciousness Revisited -- 7. Some Concluding Remarks. |
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