THE AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY READER (2ND ED) (En papel)

Preface Preface to the first edition Acknowledgements Copyright acknowledgements Ch. 1 Discourses on Africa The struggle for reason in Africa 1 Categories of cross-cultural cognition and the African condition 9 On decolonizing African religions 20 Negritude: Literature and ideology 35 Moving the centre: Towards a pluralism of cultures 52 Ideology and culture: The African experience 58 The critique of Eurocentrism and the practice of African Philosophy 64 Black Consciousness and the quest for a true humanity 79 Is there an African philosophy in existence today? 86 Ch. 2 Trends in African philosophy The status of Father Tempels and ethnophilosophy in the discourse of African philosophy 97 Francophone African philosophy 112 Four trends in current African philosophy 120 An alienated literature 125 African 'philosophy': Deconstructive and reconstructive challenges 137 Ch. 3 Metaphysical thinking in Africa Themes in African metaphysics 161 Eniyan: The Yoruba concept of a person 175 The concept of cause in African thought 192 Metaphysics, religion, and Yoruba traditional thought 200 Self as a problem in African philosophy 209 Ch. 4 Epistemology and the tradition in Africa African epistemology 219 The philosophy of ubuntu and ubuntu as a philosophy 230 The concept of trust in the Akan language 239 Logic and rationality 244 African heritage and contemporary life 259 Ch. 5 Morality in African thought Particularity in morality and its relation to community 273 The moral foundations of an African culture 287 Person and community in African thought 297 An Akan perspective on human rights 313 The ethics of ubuntu 324 Primacy of the ethical order over the economic order: Reflections for an ethical economy 331 Ch. 6 Race and gender South African women and the ties that bind 343 Should woman love 'wisdom'? 361 Race, culture, identity: Misunderstood connections 373 Visualizing the body 391 Essence of cultures and a sense of history: A feminist critique