African Philosophy in Search of Identity - In Search of an Identity

Informationen zum Autor D. A. MASOLO is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Antioch College and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Nairobi. Klappentext Masolo's purview includes Francophone and Anglophone philosophers in both the analytic and phenomenological traditions. Zusammenfassung Masolo's purview includes Francophone and Anglophone philosophers in both the analytic and phenomenological traditions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. Logocentrism and Emotivism: Two Systems in Struggle for Control of Identity 2. Tempels and the Setting of Ethnophilosophy 3. Systematic Ethnophilosophy 4. Language and Reality 5. Cultures Without Time? Mbiti's Religious Ethnology 6. Mysticism, Science, Philosophy, and Rationality: The Analytic Point of View 7. Excavating Africa in Western Discourse 8. "Tradition" and "Modernity": The Role of Reason Conclusion: Experience and African Philosophy Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: D. A. Masolo, Masolo D a
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.1994
• EAN: 9780253207753
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20775-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: African Systems of Thought; African Systems of Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day