LEADER 05542nam 22008174a 450 001 9910143448203321 005 20220426130218.0 010 $a9786611215064 010 $a1-281-21506-6 010 $a1-4051-6438-7 010 $a1-4051-7862-0 010 $a1-78268-421-2 010 $a1-280-28428-5 010 $a9786610284283 010 $a0-470-70076-9 010 $a0-470-99737-0 010 $a0-470-99715-X 010 $a1-4051-2885-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000351860 035 $a(EBL)214114 035 $a(OCoLC)437065594 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000126042 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11143601 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126042 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10031219 035 $a(PQKB)10707473 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC214114 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL214114 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10240375 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL28428 035 $a(PPN)198665741 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000351860 100 $a20030307d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to African philosophy$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Kwasi Wiredu ; advisory editors, William E. Abraham, Abiola Irele, and Ifeanyi A. Menkiti 210 $aMalden, MA $cBlackwell Pub.$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (610 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to philosophy ;$v28 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4051-4567-6 311 $a0-631-20751-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA 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 Africa 327 $a9 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 ISSUES 327 $a18 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 Ifa?: 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 RELIGION 327 $a27 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 POLITICS 327 $a35 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 TOPICS 327 $a44 Knowledge as a Development Issue 330 $aThis volume of newly commissioned essays provides comprehensive coverage of African philosophy, ranging across disciplines and throughout the ages. Offers a distinctive historical treatment of African philosophy. Covers all the main branches of philosophy as addressed in the African tradition. Includes accounts of pre-colonial African philosophy and contemporary political thought. 410 0$aBlackwell companions to philosophy ;$v28. 606 $aPhilosophy, African 606 $aFilosofia africana$2thub 608 $aLlibres electrònics$2thub 615 0$aPhilosophy, African. 615 7$aFilosofia africana 676 $a199/.6 701 $aWiredu$b Kwasi$0878147 701 $aAbraham$b W. E$g(Willie E.),$f1934-$0878148 701 $aIrele$b Abiola$0658806 701 $aMenkiti$b Ifeanyi$0878149 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910143448203321 996 $aA companion to African philosophy$91960480 997 $aUNINA