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African Philosophy An Anthology

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ISBN-10: 0631203389

ISBN-13: 9780631203384

Edition: 1998

Authors: Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze

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Bringing together canonical philosophical texts from African, African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black European thinkers, this major new anthology is designed to serve both as a textbook and as the authoritative reference volume in Africana philosophical and cultural studies. The texts collected here also have enormous historical range: from traditional to modern, pre-colonial through colonial to post-colonial; and from the slave period through emancipation and the Civil Rights movements to the postmodern. In so doing, they represent a variety of cultural and ideological viewpoints, including secular, feminist, Christian, Islamic, and animist perspectives. The volume will be useful for…    
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List price: $76.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/4/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.70" wide x 9.70" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.068
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgements
What is Africana Philosophy?
African Philosophy: Yesterday and Today
Philosophy and Post-Colonial Africa
African, African-American, Africana Philosophy
The AFrican Foundations of Greek Philosophy
Contemporary Moslem Philosophy in North Africa
Human Nature: Mind, Body, and Self-Identity
Relation of Okra (Soul) and Honam (Body): An Akan Conception
''Chi'' in Igbo Cosmology: Chinua Achebe (Bard College)
The Sociality of Self
Philosophy, Politics, and Society
Leaders Must Not be Masters
Consciencism
Two Traditions in African American Political Philosophy
Universal Dimensions of Black Struggle I: The Revolution.Universal Dimensions of Black Struggle II: Human versus Civil Rights
Philosophy, Politics and Power: An Afro-American Perspective
Ethics
''Mutumin Kirki:'' The Concept of the Good Man in Hausa
Yoruba Philosophy: Individuality, Community and the Moral Order
Concerning Violence
Morals and the Value of Human Life
Moral Reasoning versus Racial Reasoning: Cornel West (Harvard University)
On Knowledge and Science
Elements of Physics in Yoruba Culrture I.Elements of Physics in Yoruba Culture II
''Divination'': A Way of Knowing?
The Problem of Knowledge in "Divination": The Example of Ifa
The Concept of Truth in Akan Language
African Traditional Thought and Western Science
How not to Compare Western Science and African Thought
Literacy, Criticism, and the Growth of Knowledge
Philosophy and Colonial Encounter
Modern Western Philosophy and African Colonialism
Discourse on Colonialism
The Wretched of the Earth
Colonialism and the Colonized
Cultural Nationalism in the Colonial Period
National Liberation and Culture (Return to the Source)
Philosophy and Race
The Conservation of Races
The Illusion of Race
Du Bois on the Invention of Race
Racism and Culture
Racism and Feminism: bell hooks (Yale University)
Philosophy and Gender
The Woman Question: African and Western Perspectives
Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory: bell hook (Yale University)
Black Feminist Thought: Patricia Hill Collins (University of Cincinnati)
The Erasure of Black Women
The Curious Coincidence Between Feminine and African Moralities
Philosophy and Trans-Atlantic African Slavery
The Nature of Slavery
The Concept of Slavery
The Origin of Negro Slavery
''The Interesting Narrative''
Thoughts on the Evil of Slavery
Autobiographical Acts and the Voice of the Southern Slave
Ontology and the Nature of Art
Breath
Bantu Ontology