Bell Understanding African Philosophy

A Cross-cultural Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issues
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-94866-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
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).