Ethnophilosophy And The Search For The Wellspring Of African Philosophy

Author : Ada Agada
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030788971

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Ethnophilosophy and the Search for the Wellspring of African Philosophy by Ada Agada Pdf

This book provides a case for the de-stigmatisation of ethnophilosophy by demonstrating its continuing relevance in contemporary African philosophy. The book brings together established and brilliant young scholars who defend ethnophilosophy as a unique source of African philosophy with the capacity to colour African philosophical scholarship, thereby distinguishing African philosophy from other philosophical traditions of the world and setting the stage for philosophical dialogue in the 21st century characterised by multiculturalism and globalisation. The volume addresses the future of African philosophy by closely linking the past of this tradition with the exciting projects of the contemporary system builders whose works emerge from the ethnophilosophical while transcending it. The book is aimed at African philosophy experts, scholars of intercultural philosophy, African studies scholars and graduate students of African and intercultural philosophy.

Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi,Mubaya, Tapuwa R.
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789956763016

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African Philosophy and Thought Systems by Mawere, Munyaradzi,Mubaya, Tapuwa R. Pdf

The once acrimonious debate on the existence of African philosophy has come of age, yet the need to cultivate a culture of belonging is more demanding now than ever before in many African societies. The gargantuan indelible energised chicanery waves of neo-colonialism and globalisation and their sweeping effect on Africa demand more concerted action and solutions than cul-de-sac discourses and magical realism. It is in view of this realisation that this book was born. This is a vital text for understanding contextual historical trends in the development of African philosophic ideas on the continent and how Africans could possibly navigate the turbulent catadromous waters, tangled webs and chasms of destruction, and chagrin of struggles that have engrossed Africa since the dawn of slavery and colonial projects on the continent. The book aims to generate more insights and influence national, continental, and global debates in the field of philosophy. It is accessible and handy to a wider range of readers, ranging from educators and students of African philosophy, anthropology, African studies, cultural studies, and all those concerned with the further development of African philosophy and thought systems on the African continent.

Author : D A Masolo
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474470773

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African Philosophy in Search of Identity by D A Masolo Pdf

African Philosophy in Search of Identity

Author : F. Ochieng'-Odhiambo
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1433107503

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Trends and Issues in African Philosophy by F. Ochieng'-Odhiambo Pdf

This book provides an excellent orientation to, and a logical development of, the major trends and issues that have dominated discussions in African philosophy since the publication of Placide Tempels' Bantu Philosophy in 1945. Views of some of the best-known African philosophers, such as Kwasi Wiredu, Paulin Hountondji, H. Odera Oruka, Peter Bodunrin, and D. A. Masolo are discussed in detail. The text takes into account, in the form of quotations or referencing, the views of several other philosophers who have had something to say about African philosophy. This book facilitates an excellent orientation on African philosophy at the undergraduate level. Those pursuing African philosophy at the graduate level will find the text refreshingly novel.

Author : Sanya Osha
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789042033184

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Postethnophilosophy by Sanya Osha Pdf

This book makes a bold announcement for the beginning of a postethnophilosophical phase in modern African thought. It re-considers the question: “What is African philosophy,” and introduces a strategy for setting a broad and productive agenda for contemporary African philosophical thought.

Author : Leonhard Praeg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004457959

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African Philosophy and the Quest for Autonomy by Leonhard Praeg Pdf

As academic subject African philosophy is predominantly concerned with epistemology. It aims at re-presenting a lost body of authentic African thought. This apparently austere a-historical concern is framed by a grand narrative of liberation that cannot but politicise the quest for epistemological autonomy. By “politicise” I mean that the desire to re-cover an authentic African epistemology in order to establish African philosophy as autonomous subject, ironically re-iterates Western, enlightenment notions of the autonomous subject. Here, in the pursuit of an autonomous subject the terms of historical oppression are necessarily duplicated in the terms of liberation. In this study I use the term disfigurement to refer to the double-bind - peculiar to post-coloniality - in which the African subject finds itself when it has to establish and affirm a sense of apartheid (in order to confirm the assumption of difference) by inventing its own autonomy in a way that ironically conflicts with an African conception of the autonomous subject. The transcendental concern with epistemological authenticity and autonomy - indicative of an oppressive desire for Western style autonomy - necessary as it may be in a post-colonial context, is placed in an ethical framework that seeks to remain faithful to the African dictum of identity and autonomy “I am because we are”. Whereas the first three chapters are concerned with the transcendental question ‘what is African philosophy?’, the fourth and last chapter situates the ethical framework within which this question arises in the context of the recently “completed” South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Author : Sam O. Imbo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781461636502

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An Introduction to African Philosophy by Sam O. Imbo Pdf

Organized topically rather than historically, this book provides an excellent introduction to the subject of African Philosophy. Samuel Oluoch Imbo synthesizes the ideas of key African philosophers into an accessible narrative. The author focuses on five central questions: What are the definitions of African philosophy? Is ethno-philosophy really philosophy? What are the dangers of an African philosophy that claims to be 'unique'? Can African philosophy be done in foreign languages such as English and French? Are there useful ways to make connections between African philosophy, African American philosophy, and women's studies? By making cross-disciplinary and transnational connections, Imbo stakes out an important place for African philosophy. Imbo's book is an invaluable introduction to this dynamic and growing area of study.

Author : Paulin J. Hountondji
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015011218446

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African Philosophy by Paulin J. Hountondji Pdf

In this seminal exploration of the nature and future of African philosophy, Paulin J. Hountondji attacks a myth popularized by ethnophilosophers such as Placide Temples and Alexis Kagame that there is an indigenous, collective African philosophy, separate and distinct from the Western philosophical tradition. Hountondji contends that ideological manifestations of this view that stress the uniqueness of the African experience are protonationalist reactions against colonialism conducted, paradoxically, in the terms of colonialist discourse.

Author : Ada Agada
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000476552

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Consolationism and Comparative African Philosophy by Ada Agada Pdf

In a major challenge to African philosophy, this book demonstrates the importance of the universalisation question for every committed African philosopher. Rooted in Africa’s colonial legacy, the universalisation question challenges the African thinker to show how authentically African philosophical concepts and phenomena can be universally applicable in a globalising world. In this highly original book, the author inserts the philosophy of consolationism into African philosophical discourse, constructing a unique philosophical system that is at once African and universally relevant. The book engages major African and Western philosophers of diverse ideological leanings in a compelling dialogue that announces the future of world philosophy as one of interculturality, in which a common philosophical horizon is forged out of the cultural diversities of the world for the edification of humanity in a continually changing world. This book will be an important read for researchers in the fields of African Studies, intercultural philosophy, philosophy of mind, and existentialism.

Author : Messay Kebede
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401200875

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Africa’s Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization by Messay Kebede Pdf

This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, freedom escapes the drawbacks of otherness, as defended by ethnophilosophy, while exposing the idiosyncratic inspiration of Eurocentric universalism. Decolonization calls for the reconnection with freedom, that is, with myth-making understood as the inaugural act of cultural pluralism. The cultural condition of modernization emerges when the return to the past deploys the future.

Author : Richard H. Bell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophie africaine
ISBN : 0415939372

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Understanding African Philosophy by Richard H. Bell Pdf

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Campbell Shittu Momoh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy, African
ISBN : UCAL:B3666012

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The Substance of African Philosophy by Campbell Shittu Momoh Pdf

Author : P.H. Coetzee,A.P.J. Roux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1027 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135884185

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The African Philosophy Reader by P.H. Coetzee,A.P.J. Roux Pdf

Divided into eight sections, each with introductory essays, the selections offer rich and detailed insights into a diverse multinational philosophical landscape. Revealed in this pathbreaking work is the way in which traditional philosophical issues related to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology, for instance, take on specific forms in Africa's postcolonial struggles. Much of its moral, political, and social philosophy is concerned with the turbulent processes of embracing modern identities while protecting ancient cultures.

Author : Jonathan O. Chimakonam,Edwin Etieyibo,Ike Odimegwu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030704360

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Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy by Jonathan O. Chimakonam,Edwin Etieyibo,Ike Odimegwu Pdf

This volume is a collection of chapters about contemporary issues within African philosophy. They are issues African philosophy must grapple with to demonstrate its readiness to make a stand against some of the challenges society faces in the coming decade such as xenophobia, Afro-phobia, extreme poverty, democratic failure and migration. The text covers new methodical directions and there is focus on the conversationalist, complementarist and consolationist movements within the field as well as the place of the Indigenous Knowledge System.The collection speaks to African philosophy’s place in intellectual history with coverage of African Ethics and African socio-political philosophy. Contributors come from a variety of different backgrounds, institutions and countries. Through their innovative ideas, they provide fresh insight and intellectual energy. The book appeals to philosophy students and researchers.

Author : Jonathan O. Chimakonam,Edwin E. Etieyibo
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781622734221

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Ka Osi Sọ Onye: African Philosophy in the Postmodern Era by Jonathan O. Chimakonam,Edwin E. Etieyibo Pdf

This collection is about composing thought at the level of modernism and decomposing it at the postmodern level where many cocks might crow with African philosophy as a focal point. It has two parts: part one is titled ‘The Journey of Reason in African Philosophy’, and part two is titled ‘African Philosophy and Postmodern Thinking’. There are seven chapters in both parts. Five of the essays are reprinted here as important selections while nine are completely new essays commissioned for this book. As their titles suggest, in part one, African philosophy is unfolded in the manifestation of reason as embedded in modern thought while in part two, it draws the effect of reason as implicated in the postmodern orientation. While part one strikes at what V. Y. Mudimbe calls the “colonising structure” or the Greco-European logo-phallo-euro-centricism in thought, part two bashes the excesses of modernism and partly valorises postmodernism. In some chapters, modernism is presented as an intellectual version of communalism characterised by the cliché: ‘our people say’. Our thinking is that the voice of reason is not the voice of the people but the voice of an individual. The idea of this book is to open new vistas for the discipline of African philosophy. African philosophy is thus presented as a disagreement discourse. Without rivalry of thoughts, Africa will settle for far less. This gives postmodernism an important place, perhaps deservedly more important than history of philosophy allocates to it. It is that philosophical moment that says ‘philosophers must cease speaking like gods in their hegemonic cultural shrines and begin to converse across borders with one another’. In this conversation, the goal for African philosophers must not be to find final answers but to sustain the conversation which alone can extend human reason to its furthermost reaches.