The Hermeneutics Of African Philosophy

Author : Tsenay Serequeberhan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135882198

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The Hermeneutics of African Philosophy by Tsenay Serequeberhan Pdf

Hermeneutics is a crucial but neglected perspective in African philosophy. Here, Tsenay Serequeberhan engages post-colonial African literature and the ideas of the African liberation struggle with critically-used insights from the European philosophical tradition. Continuing the work of Theophilus Okere and Okonda Okolo, this book attempts to overcome the debate between ethnophilosophy and professional philosophy, demonstrating that the promise of African philosophy lies with the critical development of the African hermeneutical perspective.

Author : Tsenay Serequeberhan
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Hermeneutics
ISBN : 9780415908023

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The Hermeneutics of African Philosophy by Tsenay Serequeberhan Pdf

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Tsenay Serequeberhan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : Hermeneutics
ISBN : 1138174866

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The Hermeneutics of African Philosophy by Tsenay Serequeberhan Pdf

Hermeneutics is a crucial but neglected perspective in African philosophy. Here, Tsenay Serequeberhan engages post-colonial African literature and the ideas of the African liberation struggle with critically-used insights from the European philosophical tradition. Continuing the work of Theophilus Okere and Okonda Okolo, this book attempts to overcome the debate between ethnophilosophy and professional philosophy, demonstrating that the promise of African philosophy lies with the critical development of the African hermeneutical perspective.

Author : Theophilus Okere
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3825882179

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African Philosophy and the Hermeneutics of Culture by Theophilus Okere Pdf

The Series: Studies in African Philosophy is a forum for the publication and wider dissemination of researches and reflections of value on all aspects of African philosophy. While recognising the special advantage of interdisciplinary approach in modern scholarship, it retains a special predilection for works that have special African philosophic import. Although Theophilus Okere's book African Philosophy has made remarkable impact on African philosophical scholarship, many may not be aware of the way he tried to apply his preferred method to other areas of the philosophical investigation in Africa and to overcome the risk of relativism through the promotion of intercultural dialogue in philosophy. The essays published in this volume bear testimony to the multivalent character of Okere's contribution to African philosophy. Most of the essays are about Okere's hermeneutics of culture. Some of the authors examine the method in itself, while others focus attention on its application to specific philosophical themes. Book jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:605275631

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The Hermeneutics of African Philosophy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Theophilus Okere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015013964732

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African Philosophy by Theophilus Okere Pdf

Author : Tsenay Serequeberhan
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438457895

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Existence and Heritage by Tsenay Serequeberhan Pdf

Explores overlapping concerns and themes in African(a) and continental philosophy. In Existence and Heritage, Tsenay Serequeberhan examines what the European philosophical tradition has to offer when encountered from the outsider perspective of postcolonial African thought. He reads Kant in the context of contemporary international relations, finds in Gadamer’s work a way of conceiving relations among differing traditions, and explores Heidegger’s analysis of existence as it converges with Marx’s critique of alienation. In the confluence of these different assessments, Serequeberhan articulates both a need and example of responding to Fanon’s call for a new kind of thinking in philosophy. He demonstrates both how continental philosophy can be a useful resource for theorizing Africa’s postcolonial condition and how postcolonial thought and African philosophy can provide a new way of approaching and understanding the Western tradition.

Author : B. Bin-Kapela
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789956726769

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The Dialectics of Praxis and Theoria in African Philosophy by B. Bin-Kapela Pdf

This book is a clarion call for African renaissance informed by African spirituality. It develops the vision that Africans can be the same in the process of change. Africans have to coincide with their ways of perceiving values, and to retrieve their identity wiped out by regrettable historical events. Even in this involvement of revalorisation of their stifled ways, Africans have to be aware of the fact that history has evolved and new human environments are taking place. Any attempt to recover African personality involves a triple necessity. First, to remember the past, second, to analyse critically what Africans have inherited from their past, and lastly, to project new ways and means for a genuine renaissance, free from alienation and exploitation. Bin-Kapela sees in Cultural hermeneutics an appropriate philosophical method to achieve this end of recognising and projecting African spirituality as a universal value.

Author : Barry Hallen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253003485

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A Short History of African Philosophy, Second Edition by Barry Hallen Pdf

A Short History of African Philosophy discusses major ideas, figures, and schools of thought in philosophy in the African context. While drawing out critical issues in the formation of African philosophy, Barry Hallen focuses on recent scholarship and relevant debates that have made African philosophy critical to understanding the rich and complex cultural heritage of the continent. This revised edition expands the historical perspective, takes account of recent discoveries and new canonical figures, highlights new discussions about gender as a cultural and philosophical phenomenon, clarifies issues regarding indigenous cultures and human rights, and builds on the notion that African philosophy shares methods and concerns of philosophy worldwide. This short reference is an essential resource for students, scholars, and general readers.

Author : Jonathan Kathenge PhD MBA.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781546252702

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Philosophy & Religion by Jonathan Kathenge PhD MBA. Pdf

This book is divided into three parts: Part one deals with introduction to Philosophy, covering primarily ancient historical period which deals with Cosmological questions leading to the birth of Metaphysics as a branch of Philosophy. Part two deals with African philosophy taking into consideration its subject matter from Anthropological and Theological literature. Part three delves into Religious discussion on Sacred Scripture as the main subject matter, covering such thematic issues as; Revelation, Inspiration, Hermeneutics, Sources and Canonicity.

Author : Stanley Uche Anozie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9975340288

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Hans-Georg Gadamer and African Hermeneutic Philosophy by Stanley Uche Anozie Pdf

With language at the center of interpretation and understanding, Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutics claims to provide a solution of the intercultural problem of language and hermeneutics. He moves us to a higher universality, especially with regard to literature or texts and inner meaning. If this is the case, his approach would be relevant to the problems present in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Hence the goal of this book is to apply this claim to universality to a hermeneutic or narrative text like Achebe's. Achebe's narrative text, like the Greek texts, is an excellent work for the application of universal hermeneutics. I am not questioning the validity of the universality of hermeneutics, but rather expressing how significant Gadamer's approach is to understanding other people, cultural texts and worldviews if hermeneutics is universal. Gadamer provides the philosophical optimism and platform that most African scholars' need in the interpretation and understanding of their own cultural texts andbeing understood by other non-African and European cultures and philosophical persuasions. Hermeneutics considers every text or people's worldviews as interpretive or capable of communicating meaning despite being different, foreign or strange to us. The universality of hermeneutics at its best leads to a dialogic hermeneutics in a world of global understanding/peaceful co-existence.

Author : Raphael Okechukwu Madu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Hermeneutics
ISBN : IND:30000050709876

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Problem of Meaning in Philosophy and Theology by Raphael Okechukwu Madu Pdf

Author : Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy, African
ISBN : 9788458386

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African Philosophy by Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu Pdf

Author : F. Ochieng'-Odhiambo
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Elizabeth Mburu
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783685387

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African Hermeneutics by Elizabeth Mburu Pdf

Interpretation of Scripture occurs within one’s worldview and culture, which enhances our understanding and ability to apply Scripture in the world. However, few books address Bible interpretation from an African perspective and no other textbook uses the intercultural approach found here. This book brings both an awareness of how one’s African context gives a lens to hermeneutics, but also how to interpret texts with integrity despite our cultural influences. African Hermeneutics was born of Prof Elizabeth Mburu’s frustration at only having textbooks that predominantly followed a Western worldview to teach her African students. Mburu’s approach to hermeneutics is one that begins in Africa, moving from the known to the unknown as students learn to apply her ‘four-legged stool model’ to biblical texts, namely examining: the parallels to African contexts, the theological context, the literary context, and the historical and cultural context. This textbook will help students and pastors interpret Scripture with greater accuracy in their own context, allowing for faithful application in their local contexts.