| Titre : |
African philosophy in search of identity |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Dismas Aloys Masolo, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Nairobi [Kenya] : East African Publishing House |
| Année de publication : |
1995 |
| Collection : |
African systems of thought |
| Importance : |
x, 301 p. |
| Format : |
21 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-9966-46-632-7 |
| Note générale : |
1ère éd. 1985 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Afrique subsaharienne -- Vie intellectuelle ; Philosophie ; Philosophie africaine ; Vie intellectuelle
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| Index. décimale : |
199.6 |
| Résumé : |
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 |
| Note de contenu : |
Acknowledgments -- Ch. 1. Logocentrism and Emotivism: Two Systems in Struggle for Control of Identity -- Ch. 2. Tempels and the Setting of Ethnophilosophy -- Ch. 3. Systematic Ethnophilosophy -- Ch. 4. Language and Reality -- Ch. 5. Cultures Without Time? Mbiti's Religious Ethnology -- Ch. 6. Mysticism, Science, Philosophy, and Rationality: The Analytic Point of View -- Ch. 7. Excavating Africa in Western Discourse -- Ch. 8. "Tradition" and "Modernity": The Role of Reason -- Ch. Conclusion: Experience and African Philosophy --
Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
African philosophy in search of identity [texte imprimé] / Dismas Aloys Masolo, Auteur . - Nairobi (Kenya) : East African Publishing House, 1995 . - x, 301 p. ; 21 cm. - ( African systems of thought) . ISBN : 978-9966-46-632-7 1ère éd. 1985 Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Afrique subsaharienne -- Vie intellectuelle ; Philosophie ; Philosophie africaine ; Vie intellectuelle
|
| Index. décimale : |
199.6 |
| Résumé : |
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 |
| Note de contenu : |
Acknowledgments -- Ch. 1. Logocentrism and Emotivism: Two Systems in Struggle for Control of Identity -- Ch. 2. Tempels and the Setting of Ethnophilosophy -- Ch. 3. Systematic Ethnophilosophy -- Ch. 4. Language and Reality -- Ch. 5. Cultures Without Time? Mbiti's Religious Ethnology -- Ch. 6. Mysticism, Science, Philosophy, and Rationality: The Analytic Point of View -- Ch. 7. Excavating Africa in Western Discourse -- Ch. 8. "Tradition" and "Modernity": The Role of Reason -- Ch. Conclusion: Experience and African Philosophy --
Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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