Bell Understanding African Philosophy

A Cross-cultural Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issues
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-94865-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Philosophy and the Human Situation

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bell, Richard H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

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

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richard H. Bell is Professor of Philosophy at the College of Wooster. He is the author of several books including Simone Weil: The Way of Justice as Compassion (1998), co-author of Seeds of the Spirit: Wisdom of the Twentieth Century (1995) and editor of Simone Weil's Philosophy of Culture (1993).