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010 _a2002283789
020 _a0415939364 (alk. paper)
020 _a0415939372 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 _cJTL
050 _aB5305
_b.B45 2002
100 _aBell, Richard H.
_950952
245 _aUnderstanding African philosophy :
_ba cross-cultural approach to classical and contemporary issues /
_cRichard H. Bell.
260 _aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2002.
300 _axviii, 189 p. ;
_c24 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [171]-181) and index.
505 _aMachine generated contents note: 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 I: Community and Justice -- Persons, Individualism, and Communalism -- Suffering and Injustice -- Poverty and Human Development -- 5. African Moral Philosophy II: 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
650 _aPhilosophy, African.
_950953
650 _aPhilosophy
_xAfrica.
_950954
856 _3Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/2002283789.html
_uPublisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/2002283789-d.html
942 _2lcc
_cBOOK
_hB 5305
_i.B45 2002
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