Understanding African philosophy
Subtitle: a cross-cultural approach to classical and contemporary issues
By: Richard H. Bell.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Philosophy, African.; Philosophy -- Africa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-181) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Understanding Another Culture; title: Understanding Others and Ourselves; title: A Procedure from an Aesthetic Point of View; title: "Found in Translation"; title: 2. Foundations of Modern African Philosophy; title: Ethnophilosophy and the "Negritude" Movement; title: Critical, Scientific Philosophy; title: Sage Philosophy; title: 3. Liberation and Postcolonial African Philosophy; title: African Humanism and Socialism; title: Postcolonial African Thought; title: The Question of "Race"; title: 4. African Moral Philosophy I: Community and Justice; title: Persons, Individualism, and Communalism; title: Suffering and Injustice; title: Poverty and Human Development; title: 5. African Moral Philosophy II: Truth and Reconciliation; title: Linking Communalism, Ubuntu, and Restorative Justice; title: Understanding the Grammar of Justice after Apartheid; title: "Not All Storytelling Heals": Criticisms of the TRC Process; title: Justice and Political Transformation; title: 6. Narrative in African Philosophy: Orality and Icons; title: The Philosophical Significance of Oral Narratives; title: Rational Dialogue, Democracy, and the Village Palaver; title: Finding Pictures and Fictitious Narratives "Surprising"; title: Iconic Forms and the Aesthetic Consciousness Revisited; title: 7. Some Concluding Remarks.