Research Catalog

Title

African philosophy and the hermeneutics of culture : essays in honour of Theophilus Okere / edited by J. Obi Oguejiofor and Godfrey Igwebuike Onah.

Publication

Münster : Lit ; Piscataway, NJ : Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Okere, Theophilus
• Oguejiofor, J. Obi (Josephat Obi)
• Onah, Godfrey Igwebuike

Description

xiv, 362 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in African philosophy ; v. 2

Uniform Title

Studies in African philosophy ; v. 2.

Subjects

• Okere, Theophilus > Influence
• Philosophy
• Philosophy, African
• Afrikaanse filosofie
• Hermeneutics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The philosopher and the society : portrait of Msgr. T. Okere / B.E. Nwigwe -- In search of reason's traces / Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze -- Philosophy of non-philosophy : Okere's trilogy on African philosophy / I. Maduakolam Osuagwu -- Ethnophilosophy and hermeneutics : reviewing Okere's critique of traditional African philosophy / J. Obi Oguejiofor -- The originality of African philosophy as a hermeneutical problem in Okere / Francis O.C. Njoku -- The paradigmatic status of Western philosophy in Okere's philosophical hermeneutics / Sylvanus Ifeanyi Nnoruka -- Philosophy : a particularist interpretation with universal appeal / M.B. Ramose -- Okere on the self : a hermeneutical approach to an ontological question / Godfrey Igwebuike Onah -- Philosophy vs hermeneutics : between ruinance and enowing / Innocent Enweh -- Can there be an African philosophy of science? : an appeal to the hermeneutics / Everistus Ekweke -- Okere, Igbo names and African philosophy / M.F. Asiegbu -- An evaluation of Theophilus Okere's conception of the place of African traditional values in contemporary African societies / J.C.A. Agbakoba -- Proverbs as sources of African philosophy / Cletus Umezinwa -- Mutato nomine, de nobis historia narratur? : about intercultural philosophy / Marco Massoni -- Identify [i.e. identity] and change in African culture : the case of African women / Aweto Pauline Ogho -- Globalization as dialogue of culture : from conflict to convergence / George F. McLean -- Prejudice in Okere : universality in contextualism / Augustine Oburota -- The challenges of African moral heritage : the Igbo case / John Chukwuemeka Ekei -- From Okere to the rest of us : a philosophy of life / Michael Sunday Sasa -- Theophilus Okere : my philosophical odyssey : interview / by J. Obi Oguejiofor.

ISBN

• 3825882179 (hd. bd.)
• 9783825882174 (hd. bd.)

LCCN

• 2006483619
• 99945322163

OCLC

• 60744358
• ocm60744358\
• SCSB-5604151

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries