Tradition and modernity : philosophical reflections on the African experience
by
 
Gyekye, Kwame.

Title
: 
Tradition and modernity : philosophical reflections on the African experience

Author
: 
Gyekye, Kwame.

ISBN
: 
9780195112252
 
9780195112269

Personal Author
: 
Gyekye, Kwame.

Publication Information
: 
New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Physical Description
: 
xix, 338 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents
: 
Philosophy and human affairs -- Person and community : in defense of moderate communitarianism -- Ethnicity, identity, and nationhood -- Traditional political ideas, values, and practices : their status in the modern setting -- The socialist interlude -- Quandaries in the legitimation of political power -- Political corruption : a moral pollution -- Tradition and modernity -- Epilogue : which modernity? whose tradition?

Geographic Term
: 
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Civilization -- Philosophy.

Electronic Access
: 
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0605/96023814-d.html
 
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0724/96023814-b.html


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