05539nam 22008294a 450 991080778770332120241009122859.097866112150641-281-21506-61-4051-6438-71-4051-7862-01-78268-421-21-280-28428-597866102842830-470-70076-90-470-99737-00-470-99715-X1-4051-2885-2(CKB)1000000000351860(EBL)214114(OCoLC)437065594(SSID)ssj0000126042(PQKBManifestationID)11143601(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126042(PQKBWorkID)10031219(PQKB)10707473(MiAaPQ)EBC214114(Au-PeEL)EBL214114(CaPaEBR)ebr10240375(CaONFJC)MIL28428(PPN)198665741(EXLCZ)99100000000035186020030307d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA companion to African philosophy /edited by Kwasi Wiredu ; advisory editors, William E. Abraham, Abiola Irele, and Ifeanyi A. Menkiti1st ed.Malden, MA Blackwell Pub.20041 online resource (610 p.)Blackwell companions to philosophy ;28Description based upon print version of record.1-4051-4567-6 0-631-20751-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.A Companion to African Philosophy; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction: African Philosophy in Our Time; Part I HISTORY; 1 Egypt: Ancient History of African Philosophy; 2 African Philosophers in the Greco-Roman Era; 3 Precolonial African Philosophy in Arabic; 4 Some Nineteenth-Century African Political Thinkers; 5 Africana Philosophy: Origins and Prospects; 6 Contemporary Anglophone African Philosophy: A Survey; 7 Philosophy in South Africa Under and After Apartheid; 8 Philosophy in North Africa9 The Light and the Shadow: Zera Yacob and Walda Heywat: Two Ethiopian Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century10 Zera Yacob and Traditional Ethiopian Philosophy; 11 Anton Wilhelm Amo; 12 Amo's Critique of Descartes' Philosophy of Mind; 13 Albert Luthuli, Steve Biko, and Nelson Mandela: The Philosophical Basis of their Thought and Practice; 14 Frantz Fanon (1925-1961); 15 Theory and the Actuality of Existence: Fanon and Cabral; 16 Alexis Kagame (1912-1981): Life and Thought; 17 Post-Independence African Political Philosophy; PART II METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES18 Some Methodological Controversies in African Philosophy19 Sage Philosophy: Its Methodology, Results, Significance, and Future; PART III LOGIC, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND METAPHYSICS; 20 Logic in the Acholi Language; 21 Yoruba Moral Epistemology; 22 Ifá: An Account of a Divination System and Some Concluding Epistemological Questions; 23 Toward a Theory of Destiny; 24 On the Normative Conception of a Person; 25 African Conceptions of a Person: A Critical Survey; 26 Quasi-Materialism: A Contemporary African Philosophy of Mind; PART IV THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION27 Religion in African Culture: Some Conceptual Issues28 Okot p'Bitek's Critique of Western Scholarship on African Religion; 29 Islam in Africa: Examining the Notion of an African Identity within the Islamic World; PART V ETHICS AND AESTHETICS; 30 Some African Reflections on Biomedical and Environmental Ethics; 31 Ethics and Morality in Yoruba Culture; 32 Aesthetic Inquiry and the Music of Africa; 33 Art and Community: A Social Conception of Beauty and Individuality; 34 The Many-Layered Aesthetics of African Art; PART VI POLITICS35 Government by Consensus: An Analysis of a Traditional Form of Democracy36 Democracy, Kingship, and Consensus: A South African Perspective; 37 Fellowship Associations as a Foundation for Liberal Democracy in Africa; 38 Economic Globalism, Deliberative Democracy, and the State in Africa; 39 Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Violence; 40 Western and African Communitarianism: A Comparison; 41 Human Rights in the African Context; 42 The Politics of Memory and Forgetting After Apartheid; 43 The Question of an African Jurisprudence: Some Hermeneutic Reflections; PART VII SPECIAL TOPICS44 Knowledge as a Development IssueThis 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.Blackwell companions to philosophy ;28.Philosophy, AfricanFilosofia africanathubLlibres electrònicsthubPhilosophy, African.Filosofia africana199/.6Wiredu Kwasi878147Abraham W. E(Willie E.),1934-878148Irele Abiola658806Menkiti Ifeanyi878149MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807787703321A companion to African philosophy1960480UNINA