Living Springs of Wisdom and Philosophy: Problematics of an African philosophy
Author : Claude Sumner
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy, African
ISBN :
Author : Claude Sumner
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy, African
ISBN :
Author : Reiland Rabaka
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0739133098
Building on and going far beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century and Du Bois's Dialectics, Reiland Rabaka's Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes continental and diasporan African contributions to classical and contemporary critical theory. This book represents a climatic critical theoretical clincher that cogently demonstrates how Du Bois's rarely discussed dialectical thought, interdisciplinarity, intellectual history-making radical political activism, and world-historical multiple liberation movement leadership helped to inaugurate a distinct Africana tradition of critical theory. With chapters on W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, Negritude (Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor), Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral, Africana Critical Theory endeavors to accessibly offer contemporary critical theorists an intellectual archaeology of the Africana tradition of critical theory and a much-needed dialectical deconstruction and reconstruction of black radical politics. These six seminal figures' collective thought and texts clearly cuts across several disciplines and, therefore, closes the chasm between Africana Studies and critical theory, constantly demanding that intellectuals not simply think deep thoughts, develop new theories, and theoretically support radical politics, but be and constantly become political activists, social organizers and cultural workers - that is, folk the Italian critical theorist Antonio Gramsci referred to as 'organic intellectuals.' In this sense, then, the series of studies gathered in Africana Critical Theory contribute not only to African Studies, African American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and Postcolonial Studies, but also to contemporary critical theoretical discourse across an amazingly wide-range of 'traditional' disciplines, and radical political activism outside of (and, in many instances, absolutely against) Europe's ivory towers and the absurdities of the American academy.
Author : Barry Hallen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253003482
A Short History of African Philosophy discusses major ideas, figures, and schools of thought in philosophy in the African context. While drawing out critical issues in the formation of African philosophy, Barry Hallen focuses on recent scholarship and relevant debates that have made African philosophy critical to understanding the rich and complex cultural heritage of the continent. This revised edition expands the historical perspective, takes account of recent discoveries and new canonical figures, highlights new discussions about gender as a cultural and philosophical phenomenon, clarifies issues regarding indigenous cultures and human rights, and builds on the notion that African philosophy shares methods and concerns of philosophy worldwide. This short reference is an essential resource for students, scholars, and general readers.
Author : Boniface Enyeribe Nwigwe
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy, African
ISBN :
Author : Philipp W. Rosemann
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : OSSREA Ethiopia Chapter. National Workshop
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Social sciences
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Author : Kwasi Wiredu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0470997370
This volume of newly commissioned essays provides comprehensive coverage of African philosophy, ranging across disciplines and throughout the ages. Offers a distinctive historical treatment of African philosophy. Covers all the main branches of philosophy as addressed in the African tradition. Includes accounts of pre-colonial African philosophy and contemporary political thought.
Author : Adeshina Afolayan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 863 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1137592915
This handbook investigates the current state and future possibilities of African Philosophy, as a discipline and as a practice, vis-à-vis the challenge of African development and Africa’s place in a globalized, neoliberal capitalist economy. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the philosophical enterprise in Africa, especially with reference to current discourses, arguments and new issues—feminism and gender, terrorism and fundamentalism, sexuality, development, identity, pedagogy and multidisciplinarity, etc.—that are significant for understanding how Africa can resume its arrested march towards decolonization and liberation.
Author : P.H. Coetzee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1027 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1135884188
Divided into eight sections, each with introductory essays, the selections offer rich and detailed insights into a diverse multinational philosophical landscape. Revealed in this pathbreaking work is the way in which traditional philosophical issues related to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology, for instance, take on specific forms in Africa's postcolonial struggles. Much of its moral, political, and social philosophy is concerned with the turbulent processes of embracing modern identities while protecting ancient cultures.
Author : Kwadwo A. Okrah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135938024
This study examines the issues of indigenous philosophies, which are embedded in different aspects of socialization process among the Akan of Ghana. The research explores the possibility of forging a new future that builds on the positive aspects of their past and present and on carefully chosen ideas, methods and technology from abroad.