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040 _cJTL
050 _aB5375
_b.M37 1994
100 _aMasolo, D. A.
245 _aAfrican philosophy in search of identity /
_cD. A. Masolo; International African Institute.
260 _aBloomington and Indianapolis :
_bIndiana University Press,
_c1994.
300 _a301 p. :
_c24 cm.
440 _aAfrican systems of thought.
500 _a"Published in association with the International African Institute, London."
505 _a 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.
520 _aA 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.
650 _aPhilosophy, African.
650 _aAfrica, Sub-Saharan
_xIntellectual life.
650 _aAfrican, Sub-Saharan
_xIntellectual life.
710 _aInternational African Institute.
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_cBOOK
_hB 5375
_i.M37 1994
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_d18551