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Understanding African philosophy : a cross-cultural approach to classical and contemporary issues

Title
Understanding African philosophy : a cross-cultural approach to classical and contemporary issues / Richard H. Bell.
Author
Bell, Richard H.
Publication
  • New York : Routledge, [2002]
  • ©2002

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Description
xviii, 189 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Philosophy, African
  • Philosophy > Africa
  • Philosophy
  • Philosophie
  • Afrikaanse filosofie
  • Africa
  • Afrika
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-181) and index.
Contents
1. Understanding another culture -- Understanding others and ourselves -- A procedure from an aesthetic point of view -- "Found in translation" -- 2. Foundations of modern African philosophy -- Ethnophilosophy and the "negritude" movement -- Critical, scientific philosophy -- Sage philosophy -- 3. Liberation and postcolonial African philosophy -- African humanism and socialism -- Postcolonial African thought -- The question of "race" -- 4. African moral philosophy 1 : community and justice -- Persons, individualism, and communalism -- Suffering and injustice -- Poverty and human development -- 5. African moral philosophy 2 : truth and reconciliation -- Linking communalism, Ubuntu, and restorative justice -- Understanding the grammar of justice after apartheid -- "Not all storytelling heals" : criticisms of the TRC process -- Justice and political transformation -- 6. Narrative in African philosophy : orality and icons -- The philosophical significance of oral narratives -- Rational dialogue, democracy, and the village palaver -- Finding pictures and fictitious narratives "surprising" -- Iconic forms and the aesthetic consciousness revisited -- 7. Some concluding remarks.
ISBN
  • 0415939364
  • 9780415939362
  • 0415939372
  • 9780415939379
LCCN
2002283789
OCLC
  • ocm49395054
  • 49395054
  • SCSB-1249572
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library