03086nam 2200541Ia 450 991080990720332120200520144314.00-89680-433-X(CKB)1000000000714112(EBL)3026886(SSID)ssj0000284556(PQKBManifestationID)11233575(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284556(PQKBWorkID)10261740(PQKB)11119668(MiAaPQ)EBC3026886(Au-PeEL)EBL3026886(CaPaEBR)ebr10137837(OCoLC)133168201(EXLCZ)99100000000071411220020606d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe struggle for meaning reflections on philosophy, culture, and democracy in Africa /Paulin J. Hountondji ; translated by John Conteh-Morgan ; with a foreword by K. Anthony Appiah1st ed.Athens, Ohio Ohio University Center for International Studiesc20021 online resource (332 p.)Research in international studies. Africa series ;no. 78Original title: Combats pour le sens : Un itineraire africain.0-89680-225-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-305) and index.Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Translator's Acknowledgments -- Part I: Discovering Husserl -- 1 Landmarks -- 1. From Porto-Novo to Rue d'Ulm -- 2. Rationality as a Problem -- 2 The Idea of Science -- 1. An African Concern -- 2. The Scientific Demand -- 3. Truth and the Good -- 4. The Interconnection of Truths -- 5. The Language of Things -- 6. The Impossible Closure -- Part II: Critique of Ethnophilosophy -- 3 Anger -- 1. From Husserl to Tempels -- 2. An Exceptional Crucible: Présence Africaine -- 3. The Copenhagen Presentation -- 4. A "Set of Texts" -- 5. Developments -- 4 The Issues at Stake -- 1. Political Anchoring -- 2. Theoretical Stakes -- 3. Some Readings -- Part III: Positions -- 5 A Polluted Debate -- 1. The Elegance of the Elders -- 2. Muddying the Issues -- 3. The Nationalist Reaction -- 4. Marxists and Anti-Marxists -- 5. Initial Responses -- 6 Rootedness and Freedom -- 1. The Time for Rereadings -- 2. Linguistic Relativity and Philosophy -- 3. The Particular and the Universal -- 4. The Field of the Thinkable -- 7 Reappropriation -- 2. A Rampant Pragmatism -- 3. Variation on "Distance" -- 4. The Impossible De-linking -- 5. The Appropriation of Knowledge -- 6. Reappropriation -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.Research in international studies.Africa series ;no. 78.Philosophy, AfricanAfricaSocial conditionsPhilosophy, African.199/.66Hountondji Paulin J.1942-519458MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809907203321The struggle for meaning4004860UNINA