Introduction to Africana Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Lewis R. Gordon is Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Judaic Studies at Temple University, Philadelphia. Klappentext This undergraduate textbook offers the first comprehensive treatment of Africana philosophy. Zusammenfassung This undergraduate textbook offers the first comprehensive treatment of Africana philosophy. Covering Africa! Europe! North and South America! the Caribbean! it explores the challenges posed to our understanding of knowledge and freedom today! and the response to them which can be found within Africana philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Africana philosophy in context; Part I. Groundings: 1. Africana philosophy as a modern philosophy; 2. Classic eighteenth- and nineteenth-century foundations; Part II. From New World to New Worlds: 3. Three pillars of African-American philosophy; 4. Africana philosophical movements in the United States, Canada, and Britain; 5. Afro-Caribbean philosophy; 6. African philosophy; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Lewis R. Gordon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2008
• EAN: 9780521858854
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85885-4
• Dimensions: 182 mm x 255 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Phi; Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Africa, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, African History, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Non-Western philosophy, Islamic & Arabic philosophy