African Philosophy in Search of Identity

D. A. Masolo (Author)

9780253207753

Paperback / softback, published 22 August 1994

304 pages
23.5 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm, 0.513 kg

" . . . a great read. It is masterfully presented, and is an ideal text both for advanced undergraduates and graduate students." —International Journal of African Historical Studies
" . . . a detailed, critical guide to fifty years of African philosophy . . . " —Teaching Philosophy
"Masolo offers an expansive and lucidly panoramic view of the origin and developments in African philosophy." —Africa Today
"The excellence of this book lies in the wealth of perspectives that it brings to the discussion on what constitutes philosophy, rationality, and meaningful reflection. It is both thought provoking and illuminating." —Ethics
A Kenyan philosopher surveys themes and debates in African philosophy over the last five decades. Masolo's purview includes Francophone and Anglophone philosophers in both the analytic and phenomenological traditions.

Acknowledgments
1. Logocentrism and Emotivism: Two Systems in Struggle for Control of Identity
2. Tempels and the Setting of Ethnophilosophy
3. Systematic Ethnophilosophy
4. Language and Reality
5. Cultures Without Time? Mbiti's Religious Ethnology
6. Mysticism, Science, Philosophy, and Rationality: The Analytic Point of View
7. Excavating Africa in Western Discourse
8. "Tradition" and "Modernity": The Role of Reason
Conclusion: Experience and African Philosophy
Notes
Bibliography
Index