Understanding African Philosophy A Cross cultural Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issues 1st Edition by Richard Bell ISBN 978-0415939362 0415939364
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ISBN 10: 0415939364
ISBN 13: 978-0415939362
Author: Richard H. Bell
Understanding African Philosophy serves as a critical guide to some of the most important issues in modern African philosophy. Richard Bell introduces readers to the complexity of Africa, the legacy of colonialism, the challenges of post independence Africa, and other recent developments in African Philosophy. Chapters discuss the value of African oral and written texts for philosophy, concepts of negritude, African socialism, and race, as well as current discussions in international development ethics connected to poverty and human suffering. Two chapters are focused on moral issues related to community, justice, and civic responsibility. Bell’s sensitivity to and engagement with the complications of cross-cultural understandings help non-African readers connect with African culture and thought.
Table of contents:
1. Understanding Another Culture Understanding Others and Ourselves A Procedure from an Aesthetic Point of View “Found in Translation”
2. Foundations of Modern African Philosophy Ethnophilosophy and the “Negritude” Movement
Critical, Scientific Philosophy Sage Philosophy
3. Liberation and Postcolonial African Philosophy
African Humanism and Socialism Postcolonial African Thought The Question of “Race”
4. African Moral Philosophy I: Community and Justice
Persons, Individualism, and Communalism Suffering and Injustice
Poverty and Human Development
5. African Moral Philosophy II: Truth and Reconciliation
Linking Communalism, Ubuntu, and Restorative Justice Understanding the Grammar of Justice after Apartheid “Not All Storytelling Heals”: Criticisms of the TRC Process Justice and Political Transformation
6. Narrative in African Philosophy: Orality and Icons The Philosophical Significance of Oral Narratives Rational Dialogue, Democracy, and the Village Palaver Finding Pictures and Fictitious Narratives “Surprising”
Iconic Forms and the Aesthetic Consciousness Revisited
7. Some Concluding Remarks
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