African philosophy : an anthology /
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| Imprint: | Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1998. |
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| Description: | xiii, 494 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Blackwell philosophy anthologies ; 5 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2916884 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. What is Africana Philosophy?
- 1. African Philosophy: Yesterday and Today
- 2. Philosophy and Post-Colonial Africa
- 3. African, African-American, Africana Philosophy
- 4. The AFrican Foundations of Greek Philosophy
- 5. Contemporary Moslem Philosophy in North Africa
- Part II. Human Nature: Mind, Body, and Self-Identity
- 6. Relation of Okra (Soul) and Honam (Body): An Akan Conception
- 7. ''Chi'' in Igbo Cosmology
- 8. The Sociality of Self
- Part III. Philosophy, Politics, and Society
- 9. Leaders Must Not be Masters
- 10. Consciencism
- 11. Two Traditions in African American Political Philosophy
- 12. Universal Dimensions of Black Struggle I: The Revolution. Universal Dimensions of Black Struggle II: Human versus Civil Rights
- 13. Philosophy, Politics and Power: An Afro-American Perspective
- Part IV. Ethics
- 14. ''Mutumin Kirki:'' The Concept of the Good Man in Hausa
- 15. Yoruba Philosophy: Individuality, Community and the Moral Order
- 16. Concerning Violence
- 17. Morals and the Value of Human Life
- 18. Moral Reasoning versus Racial Reasoning
- Part V. On Knowledge and Science
- 19. Elements of Physics in Yoruba Culrture I. Elements of Physics in Yoruba Culture II
- 20. ''divination'': A Way of Knowing?
- 21. The Problem of Knowledge in "Divination": The Example of Ifa
- 22. The Concept of Truth in Akan Language
- 23. African Traditional Thought and Western Science
- 24. How not to Compare Western Science and African Thought
- 25. Literacy, Criticism, and the Growth of Knowledge
- Part VI. Philosophy and Colonial Encounter
- 26. Modern Western Philosophy and African Colonialism
- 27. Discourse on Colonialism
- 28. The Wretched of the Earth
- 29. Colonialism and the Colonized
- 30. Cultural Nationalism in the Colonial Period
- 31. National Liberation and Culture (Return to the Source)
- Part VII. Philosophy and Race
- 32. The Conservation of Races
- 33. The Illusion of Race
- 34. Du Bois on the Invention of Race
- 35. Racism and Culture
- 36. Racism and Feminism
- Part VIII. Philosophy and Gender
- 37. The Woman Question: African and Western Perspectives
- 38. Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory
- 39. Black Feminist Thought
- 40. The Erasure of Black Women
- 41. The Curious Coincidence Between Feminine and African Moralities
- Part IX. Philosophy and Trans-Atlantic African Slavery
- 42. The Nature of Slavery
- 43. The Concept of Slavery
- 44. The Origin of Negro Slavery
- 45. ''the Interesting Narrative''
- 46. Thoughts on the Evil of Slavery
- 47. Autobiographical Acts and the Voice of the Southern Slave
- Part X. Ontology and the Natur