African philosophy in search of identity /

Main Author: Masolo, D. A.
Corporate Author: International African Institute.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 1994.
Series:African systems of thought
Subjects:
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=23116
Table of Contents:
  • Logocentrism and emotivism: two systems in struggle for control of identity
  • Tempels and the setting of ethnophilosophy
  • Systematic ethnophilosophy
  • Language and reality
  • Cultures without time? Mbiti's religious ethnology
  • Mysticism, science, philosophy, and rationality: the analytic point of view
  • Excavating Africa in Western discourse
  • "Tradition" and "Modernity": the role of reason
  • Conclusion: Experience and African philosophy.