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.
0253207754
Philosophy, African.
Africa, Sub-Saharan --Intellectual life.
African, Sub-Saharan--Intellectual life.
B5375 / .M37 1994
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.
0253207754
Philosophy, African.
Africa, Sub-Saharan --Intellectual life.
African, Sub-Saharan--Intellectual life.
B5375 / .M37 1994