African philosophy in search of identity /

Masolo, D. A.

African philosophy in search of identity / D. A. Masolo; International African Institute. - Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 1994. - 301 p. : 24 cm. - African systems of thought. .

"Published in association with the International African Institute, London."

Logocentrism and emotivism: two systems in struggle for control of identity --
Tempels and the setting of ethnophilosophy --
Systematic ethnophilosophy --
Language and reality --
Cultures without time? Mbiti's religious ethnology --
Mysticism, science, philosophy, and rationality: the analytic point of view --
Excavating Africa in Western discourse --
"Tradition" and "Modernity": the role of reason --
Conclusion: Experience and African philosophy.

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. -- Publisher description.

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Philosophy, African.
Africa, Sub-Saharan --Intellectual life.
African, Sub-Saharan--Intellectual life.

B5375 / .M37 1994