| Description |
1 online resource (610 pages) |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 28 |
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Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 28.
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| Contents |
Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction: African Philosophy in Our Time; 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; 9 The Light and the Shadow: Zera Yacob and Walda Heywat: Two Ethiopian Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century |
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10 Zera Yacob and Traditional Ethiopian Philosophy11 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; 18 Some Methodologi |
| Summary |
A collection of new essays on African philosophy throughout ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary times. The essays, which encompass all the main branches of philosophy - logic, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics and politics, among others - are informative as well as reflective |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy, African.
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Philosophy, African
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780470997376 |
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0470997370 |
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