Title African philosophy in search of identity / D.A. Masolo

Published Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (301 pages) Series African systems of thought African systems of thought. Contents Logocentrism and emotivism: two systems in struggle for control of identity -- Tempels and the setting of ethnophilosophy -- Systematic ethnophilosophy -- Language and reality -- Cultures without time? Mbiti's religious ethnology -- Mysticism, science, philosophy, and rationality: the analytic point of view -- Excavating Africa in Western discourse -- "Tradition" and "Modernity": the role of reason -- Conclusion: Experience and African philosophy Summary A Kenyan philosopher surveys themes and debates in African philosophy over the last five decades. Masolo's purview includes Francophone and Anglophone philosophers in both the analytic and phenomenological traditions. -- Publisher description Analysis Philosophy Africa Notes "Published in association with the International African Institute, London." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Philosophy, African. PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern. Intellectual life Philosophy, African Philosophie Afrikaanse filosofie. Philosophie -- Afrique -- 20e siècle. SUBJECT Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Intellectual life Subject Sub-Saharan Africa Afrika Afrique noire -- Vie intellectuelle. Form Electronic book Author International African Institute. ISBN 0585163952 9780585163956 9781474470773 1474470777

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