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The African philosophy reader : a text with readings
Title:
The African philosophy reader : a text with readings
Author:
Coetzee, P. H. (Pieter Hendrik), 1949-
ISBN:
9780415968096
Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Routledge, 2003.
Physical Description:
xiii, 667 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Some African cultural concepts / S. Biko -- Are there cultural universals? / K. Wiredu -- Ubuntu culture and participatory management / E.D. Prinsloo -- What is African philosophy? / D.N. Kaphagawani -- Sage philosophy / H.O. Oruku -- Ethnophilosophy and its critics / K.A. Appiah -- Ènìyàn: the Yoruba concept of a person / S. Ghadegesin -- African conceptions of personhood and intellectual identities / D.N. Kaphagawani -- The concept of cause in African thought / G.S. Sogolo -- On decolonizing African religions / K. Wiredu -- Logic and rationality / G.S. Sogolo -- The concept of truth in the Akan language / K. Wiredu -- Themes in a Chewa epistemology / D.N. Kaphagawani -- Old Gods, new worlds / K.A. Appiah -- Individuality, community, and the moral order / S. Ghadegesin -- The moral foundations of an African culture / K. Wiredu -- Person and community in African thought / K. Gyekye -- The definition of Black consciousness / S. Biko -- Outlawing racism in philosophy: on race and philosophy / M.P. More -- Democracy and consensus in African traditional politics: a plea for a non-party polity / K. Wiredu -- Traditional African aesthetics: a philosophical perspective / I.C. Onyewuenyi -- Morality, art, and African philosophy: a response to Wiredu / P. English & N. Steele-Hamme -- Is primitive art "art"? / G. Blocker -- On the distinction between modern and traditional African aesthetics / G. Blocker -- Negritude and African socialism / L.S. Senghor.
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