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Author : Placide Tempels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781884631092
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Bantu Philosophy written by Placide Tempels and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956763012
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)
Download or read book African Philosophy and Thought Systems written by Mawere, Munyaradzi and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The once acrimonious debate on the existence of African philosophy has come of age, yet the need to cultivate a culture of belonging is more demanding now than ever before in many African societies. The gargantuan indelible energised chicanery waves of neo-colonialism and globalisation and their sweeping effect on Africa demand more concerted action and solutions than cul-de-sac discourses and magical realism. It is in view of this realisation that this book was born. This is a vital text for understanding contextual historical trends in the development of African philosophic ideas on the continent and how Africans could possibly navigate the turbulent catadromous waters, tangled webs and chasms of destruction, and chagrin of struggles that have engrossed Africa since the dawn of slavery and colonial projects on the continent. The book aims to generate more insights and influence national, continental, and global debates in the field of philosophy. It is accessible and handy to a wider range of readers, ranging from educators and students of African philosophy, anthropology, African studies, cultural studies, and all those concerned with the further development of African philosophy and thought systems on the African continent.
Author : Placide Tempels
Publisher : Présence africaine, c. 1959, 1969 printing.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bantu Philosophy written by Placide Tempels and published by Présence africaine, c. 1959, 1969 printing.. This book was released on 1969 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frans Dokman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100060442X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Beyond Bantu Philosophy written by Frans Dokman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franciscan priest Placide Tempels’s 1946 book, Bantu Philosophy, introduced a new discourse about African thought and beliefs, questioning the universality of Western philosophy and establishing paradigms that continue to dominate discussion of the relationships between Africa and the West today. More than 75 years after the publication of this influential text, this volume brings together a wide range of contributors to examine the legacy and impact of Tempels’s work for the study of African philosophy and religion. Reflecting on whether Bantu Philosophy reinforces conflict or convergence between Africa and the West, and its reception within Africa, scholars from both African and Western institutions provide new perspectives on both Tempels’s ideas and ongoing debates in African philosophy and religion.
Author : F. Ochieng'-Odhiambo
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433107504
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Trends and Issues in African Philosophy written by F. Ochieng'-Odhiambo and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an excellent orientation to, and a logical development of, the major trends and issues that have dominated discussions in African philosophy since the publication of Placide Tempels' Bantu Philosophy in 1945. Views of some of the best-known African philosophers, such as Kwasi Wiredu, Paulin Hountondji, H. Odera Oruka, Peter Bodunrin, and D. A. Masolo are discussed in detail. The text takes into account, in the form of quotations or referencing, the views of several other philosophers who have had something to say about African philosophy. This book facilitates an excellent orientation on African philosophy at the undergraduate level. Those pursuing African philosophy at the graduate level will find the text refreshingly novel.
Author : Bachir Diagne
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 286978743X
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)
Download or read book The Ink of the Scholars written by Bachir Diagne and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the issues discussed today by African philosophers? Four important topics are identified here as important objects of philosophical reflection on the African continent. One is the question of ontology in relation to African religions and aesthetics. Another is the question of time and, in particular, of prospective thinking and development. A third issue is the task of reconstructing the intellectual history of the continent through the examination of the question of orality but also by taking into account the often neglected tradition of written erudition in Islamic centres of learning. Timbuktu is certainly the most important and most famous of such intellectual centres. The fourth question concerns political philosophy: the concept of African socialisms is revisited and the march that led to the adoption of the African Charter of Human and Peoples Rights is examined. All these important issues are also fundamental to understanding the question of African languages and translation.
Author : Paulin J. HOUNTONDJI
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253210968
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)
Download or read book African Philosophy, Second Edition written by Paulin J. HOUNTONDJI and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hountondji contends that ideological manifestations of this view that stress the uniqueness of the African experience are protonationalist reactions against colonialism conducted, paradoxically, in the terms of colonialist discourse. Hountondji argues that a genuine African philosophy must assimilate and transcend the theoretical heritage of Western philosophy and must reflect a rigorous process of independent scientific inquiry.
Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780253204684
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Africa written by V. Y. Mudimbe and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 1988-05-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is the meaning of Africa and being an African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism? These are the kinds of fundamental questions that this book addresses. V. Y. Mudimbe argues that the various discourses themselves establish the worlds of thought in which people conceive their identity. Western anthropology and missionaries have introduced distortions not only for outsiders but also for Africans trying to understand themselves. Mudimbe goes beyond the classic issues of African anthropology or history. He says that the book attempts an archeology of African gnosis as a system of knowledge in which major philosophical questions recently have arisen: first, concerning the form, the content, and the style of Africanizing knowledge; second, concerning the status of traditional systems of thought. He is directly concerned with the processes of transformation of different types of knowledge." -- P. 4 of cover.
Author : Placide Tempels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Bantu philosophy written by Placide Tempels and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Odera Oruka
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004452265
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Sage Philosophy written by Henry Odera Oruka and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sage Philosophy is an anthology of three main parts: Part one contains papers by Odera Oruka clearing the way and arguing about his research over the last decade on indigenous sages in Kenya. Part Two introduces verbatim interviews with a given number of those sages, while Part Three consists of published papers by scholars who are critics or commentators on the Oruka project. The author has spent the last decade in Kenya carrying out his research. It is the general stand of the book that the sages turn out to be thinkers or philosophers in no trivial sense, despite their lack of modern formal education. This study is a critique for all those scholars who hitherto have found no practice of critical philosophy in traditional Africa.
Author : Pieter Hendrik Coetzee
Publisher : International Thomson Publishing Services
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Philosophy from Africa written by Pieter Hendrik Coetzee and published by International Thomson Publishing Services. This book was released on 1998 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perspectives provided in this volume offer wise and refreshing alternatives to problems of self and society, culture, aesthetics, metaphysics, and religion.
Author : Richard A. Wright
Publisher : Lanham : University Press of America
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book African Philosophy written by Richard A. Wright and published by Lanham : University Press of America. This book was released on 1984 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the book is thus to present, substantively, significant writing on African Philosophy, in a form which will be useful both in the classroom and in the library of those interested in Africa.
Author : Derek Nurse
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191553603
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Tense and Aspect in Bantu written by Derek Nurse and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world's largest language phylum. Bantu languages are spoken in central, eastern, and southern sub-Saharan Africa south of a line between Nigeria and Somalia. By current estimates there are between 250 and 600 of them, as yet neither adequately classified nor fully described. Professor Nurse's account is based on data from more than 200 Bantu languages and varieties, a representative sample of which is freely available on the publisher's website. He devotes substantial chapters to the analysis and comparison of the different tense and aspect systems found in Bantu. He also examines the verbal categories with which they interact, including negation and focus. Synchronic and diachronic perspectives are interwoven throughout the book. Following a brief history of Bantu over the last five thousand years, the final two chapters look systematically at the history of tense and aspect in Bantu. The first deals with the reconstruction of the earlier forms from which contemporary structures, morphemes, and categories are derived, and the second with the processes of change, including grammaticalization, by means of which older analytical structures and independent lexical items moved as they became incorporated as grammatical inflections and categories.
Author : P.H. Coetzee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135884188
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book The African Philosophy Reader written by P.H. Coetzee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into eight sections, each with introductory essays, the selections offer rich and detailed insights into a diverse multinational philosophical landscape. Revealed in this pathbreaking work is the way in which traditional philosophical issues related to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology, for instance, take on specific forms in Africa's postcolonial struggles. Much of its moral, political, and social philosophy is concerned with the turbulent processes of embracing modern identities while protecting ancient cultures.
Author : Samuel Oluoch Imbo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847688418
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (884 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to African Philosophy written by Samuel Oluoch Imbo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized topically rather than historically, this book provides an excellent introduction to the subject of African Philosophy. Samuel Oluoch Imbo synthesizes the ideas of key African philosophers into an accessible narrative. The author focuses on five central questions: What are the definitions of African philosophy? Is ethno-philosophy really philosophy? What are the dangers of an African philosophy that claims to be 'unique'? Can African philosophy be done in foreign languages such as English and French? Are there useful ways to make connections between African philosophy, African American philosophy, and women's studies? By making cross-disciplinary and transnational connections, Imbo stakes out an important place for African philosophy. Imbo's book is an invaluable introduction to this dynamic and growing area of study.
Author : Campbell Shittu Momoh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Substance of African Philosophy written by Campbell Shittu Momoh and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
Publisher : Athelia Henrietta Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book African Cosmology of the Bântu-Kôngo written by Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau and published by Athelia Henrietta Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life is fundamentally a process of perpetual and mutual communication; and to communicate is to emit and to receive waves and radiations (minika ye minienie). This process of, receiving and releasing or passing them on (tambula ye tambikisa) is the key to human beings game of survival. A person is perpetually bathed by radiations' weight, (zitu kia minienie). The weight (zitu/demo) of radiations may have a negative as well as positive impact on any tiny being, for example a person who represents the most vibrating: "kolo" (knot) of relationships." "The following expressions are very common among the Bantu, in general, and among the Kongo in particular, which prove to us the antiquity of these concepts in the African continent; Our businesses are waved/shaken; our health is waved/shaken; what we possess is waved/shaken; the communities are waved/shaken: Where are these (negative) waves coming from (Salu bieto bieti nikunwa; mavimpi nikunwa; biltuvwidi nikunwa; makanda nikunwa: Kwe kutukanga minika miami)?" "For the Bantu, a person lives and moves within an ocean of waves/radiations. One is sensitive or immune to them. To be sensitive to waves is to be able to react negatively or positively to those waves/forces. But to be immune to surrounding waves/forces, is to be less reactive to them or not at all. These differences account for varying degrees in the process of knowing/learning among individuals" --BOOK Cover.
