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The African Philosophy Reader: A Text with Readings
by P. H. Coetzee, A. P. J. Roux. 667 pgs.
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1: Discourses on Africa
2: Trends in African Philosophy
3: Metaphysical Thinking in Africa
4: Epistemology and the Tradition in Africa
5: Morality in African Thought
6: Race and Gender
7: Justice and Restitution in African Political Thought
8: Africa in the Global Context
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Understanding African Philosophy: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issues
by Richard H. Bell. 190 pgs.
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1: Understanding Another Culture
2: Foundations of Modern African Philosophy
3: Liberation and Postcolonial African Philosophy
4: African Moral Philosophy I Community and Justice
5: African Moral Philosophy II Truth and Reconciliation
6: Narrative in African Philosophy Orality and Icons
7: Some Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index
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African Philosophy: New and Traditional Perspectives
by Lee M. Brown. 193 pgs.
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African Philosophy
One: Seeing Through the Conceptual Languages of Others
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Two: Akan and Euro–american Concepts of the Person
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Three: Truth and an African Language
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Four: An Outline of a Theory of Destiny
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Five: Personal Identity in African Metaphysics
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Six: The Concept of the Person in Luo Modes of Thought
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Seven: Nature, Agency, and Causation in African Traditional Thought
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Eight: Witchcraft, Science, and the Paranormal in Contemporary African Philosophy
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Nine: Understanding and Ontology in Traditional African Thought
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Selected Bibliography of Epistemological and Metaphysical Perspectives in African Philosophical Thought
Index of Names
Subject Index
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African Philosophy in Search of Identity
by D. A. Masolo. 301 pgs.
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African Philosophy in Search of Identity
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1: Logocentrism and Emotivism
2: Tempels and the Setting of Ethnophilosophy
3: Systematic Ethnophilosophy
4: Language and Reality
5: Cultures without Time?
6: Mysticism, Science, Philosophy, and Rationality
7: Excavating Africa in Western Discourse
8: Tradition and "Modernity"
Conclusion: Experience and African Philosophy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Tradition and Modernity in Postcolonial African Philosophy, in Humanitas
by Jay A. Ciaffa.
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The Territory Is Not the Map: Place, Deleuze and Guattari, and African Philosophy, in Philosophy Today
by Bruce B. Janz.
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African Philosophy: Traditional Yoruba Philosophy and Contemporary African Realities
by Segun Gbadegesin. 298 pgs.
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1: On the Idea of African Philosophy
Part I: Traditional Yoruba Philosophy
2: Eniyan: The Yoruba Concept of a Person
3 Individuality, Community and the Moral Order
5: Causality and the Concept of Health and Illness
6: The Concept of Ultimate Reality and Meaning and Contemporary African Realities: The Religious View
Part II: Contemporary African Realities
7: Contemporary African Realities: The Cultural View
8: Contemporary African Realities: The Politico-Economic View
9: The Ethics and Politics of Work
10: Concluding Remarks: Development and Human Values
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
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What White Looks like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question
by George Yancy. 280 pgs.
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Introduction: Fragments of a Social Ontology of Whiteness
1: Racial Exploitation and the Wages of Whiteness
2: The Bad Faith of Whiteness
3: The Impairment of Empathy in Goodwill Whites for African Americans
4: Delegitimizing the Normativity of "Whiteness"
5: A Foucauldian (Genealogical) Reading of Whiteness
6: Whiteness Visible
7: Rehabilitate Racial Whiteness?
8: Critical Reflections on Three Popular Tropes in the Study of Whiteness
9: Whiteness and Africana Phenomenology
10: On the Nature of Whiteness and the Ontology of Race
11: Silence and Sympathy
12: Whiteness and Feminism
13: The Academic Addict
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African Philosophy, Culture and Traditional Medicine
by M. Akin Makinde. 154 pgs.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: On Philosophy and Culture
Chapter 3: The Question of African Philosophy
Chapter 4: The Social and Political Philosophy of Obafemi Awolowo
Chapter 5: African Traditional Medicine: Principles and Practice
Chapter 6: Concluding Remarks
Appendix: African Traditional Practice Among the Yoruba of Nigeria
Notes
Literature Cited
Index
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African Culture and the Quest for Truth, in Philosophy Today
by Sylvanus Ifeanyi Nnoruka.
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Nyansapo (The Wisdom Knot): Toward an African Philosophy of Education
by Kwadwo A. Okrah. 121 pgs.
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Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: African Philosophy of Education
Chapter Three: Research Methodology
Chapter Four: Data Presentation
Chapter Five: Discussion and Interpretation of Findings
Chapter Six: Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations
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Appendix A
Appendix B
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`Good Speech': An Interpretive Essay Investigating an African Philosophy of Communication, in The Western Journal of Black Studies
by Venita Kelley.
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