Our Heritage
In this compelling and engaging work, Tsenay Serequeberhan discusses recent attempts to define African philosophy and the practice of hermeneutics for articulating a philosophy that is distinctively African. Pressing into service insights derived from Marx, Nietzsche, Levinas, Fanon, and others, Serequeberhan analyzes the question of how we relate to our past (i.e., our heritage) and the open possibilities of our future. He carefully examines the variety of approaches to African philosophy...
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In this compelling and engaging work, Tsenay Serequeberhan discusses recent themes in African-American and African Philosophy from a hermeneutical perspective, while paying special attention to the question of how we relate to our past (i.e. our hertiage) and the open possibilities of our future. Our Heritage carefully examines the variety of approaches to African philosophy and argues for a historically engaged and existentially attuned paradigm shift. The result is an approach that explores the contemporary situation of African and African-American existence in view of emancipatory struggles that have established the confines of the present.
Preface: Existence and HeritageIntroduction: Africans and African Americans in the Present1Heritage and Its Transmission: A Reading of Frantz Fanon12Identity and Race in the Black Experience: Reflections on W. E. B. Du Bois133Master and Slave: African American Slave Narratives and G. W. F. Hegel's Dialectic of Recognition254African and Identity: Kwame Anthony Appiah and the Politics of Philosophy355African Philosophy? Looking behind the Question476The Heritage of the Idea: Violence, Counterviolence, and the Negated59Conclusion: The Postcolonial Sensibility73Notes77Index97About the Author103
