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Author Masolo, D. A.

Title African philosophy in search of identity / D.A. Masolo.

Publication Info. Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 1994.

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Description 1 online resource (301 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series African systems of thought
African systems of thought.
Note "Published in association with the International African Institute, London."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index.
Summary A Kenyan philosopher surveys themes and debates in African philosophy over the last five decades. Masolo's purview includes Francophone and Anglophone philosophers in both the analytic and phenomenological traditions. -- Publisher description.
Contents Logocentrism and emotivism: two systems in struggle for control of identity -- Tempels and the setting of ethnophilosophy -- Systematic ethnophilosophy -- Language and reality -- Cultures without time? Mbiti's religious ethnology -- Mysticism, science, philosophy, and rationality: the analytic point of view -- Excavating Africa in Western discourse -- "Tradition" and "Modernity": the role of reason -- Conclusion: Experience and African philosophy.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Philosophy, African.
Philosophy, African.
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Intellectual life.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Intellectual life.
African, Sub-Saharan -- Intellectual life.
Indexed Term Philosophy
Africa
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author International African Institute.
Other Form: Print version: Masolo, D.A. African philosophy in search of identity. Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 1994 0253302714 (DLC) 93015353 (OCoLC)27895376
ISBN 0585163952 (electronic book)
9780585163956 (electronic book)
0253302714 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0253207754 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780253302717 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780253207753 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0748604960
9780748604968