The African Philosophy Reader
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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.
PrefacePreface to the first editionAcknowledgementsCopyright acknowledgementsCh. 1Discourses on AfricaThe struggle for reason in Africa1Categories of cross-cultural cognition and the African condition9On decolonizing African religions20Negritude: Literature and ideology35Moving the centre: Towards a pluralism of cultures52Ideology and culture: The African experience58The critique of Eurocentrism and the practice of African Philosophy64Black Consciousness and the quest for a true humanity79Is there an African philosophy in existence today?86Ch. 2Trends in African philosophyThe status of Father Tempels and ethnophilosophy in the discourse of African philosophy97Francophone African philosophy112Four trends in current African philosophy120An alienated literature125African 'philosophy': Deconstructive and reconstructive challenges137Ch. 3Metaphysical thinking in AfricaThemes in African metaphysics161Eniyan: The Yoruba concept of a person175The concept of cause in African thought192Metaphysics, religion, and Yoruba traditional thought200Self as a problem in African philosophy209Ch. 4Epistemology and the tradition in AfricaAfrican epistemology219The philosophy of ubuntu and ubuntu as a philosophy230The concept of trust in the Akan language239Logic and rationality244African heritage and contemporary life259Ch. 5Morality in African thoughtParticularity in morality and its relation to community273The moral foundations of an African culture287Person and community in African thought297An Akan perspective on human rights313The ethics of ubuntu324Primacy of the ethical order over the economic order: Reflections for an ethical economy331Ch. 6Race and genderSouth African women and the ties that bind343Should woman love 'wisdom'?361Race, culture, identity: Misunderstood connections373Visualizing the body391Essence of cultures and a sense of history: A feminist critique of cultural essentialism416The colour of reason: The idea of 'race' in Kant's anthropology430Ch. 7Justice and restitution in African political thoughtHistoric titles in law461I conquer, therefore I am the sovereign: Reflections upon sovereignty, constitutionalism, and democracy in Zimbabwe and South Africa463Producing knowledge in Africa today501Reconciliation and social justice in southern Africa: The Zimbabwe experience508Rescuing the post-colonial state of Africa: A reconceptualization of the role of the civil society517Neo-dependency and Africa's fragmentation528Ch. 8Africa in the global contextLater Marxist morality: Its relevance for Africa's post-colonial situation547Rethinking communities in a global context558Globalization and African Renaissance: An ethical reflection574Alienation and the African-American experience589'African Renaissance': A northbound gaze600Negritude and the gods of equity611Globalization and ubuntu626Index651
