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Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader

ISBN: 978-0-631-20340-7
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January 1997, Wiley-Blackwell
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Introduction: Philosophy and the (post) Colonial: Emmanuel Chuckwudi Eze (Bucknell University).

1. Philosophy, Culture and Technology in the Postcolonial: Kwame Gyekye (University of Ghana).

2. Is Modern Science a European System of Knowledge?: Sandra Harding (University of Delaware).

3. African Philosophy and Modernity: Peter Amato (Fordham University).

4. The Color of Reason: The Idea of Race in Kant's Anthropology: Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (Bucknell University).

5. The Critique of Eurocentrism and the Practice of African Philosophy: Tsenay Serequeberhan (Simmons College).

6. Critic of Boers or Africans? Arendt's Treatment of South Africa in Origins of Totalitarianism: Gail Presby (Marist College).

7. African Philosophy's Challenge to Continental Philosophy: Robert Bernasconi (Memphis University).

8. Understanding African Philosophy from a Non-African Point of View: An Exercise in Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Richard Bell (College of Wooster).

9. Alterity, Dialogue, and African Philosophy: Bruce Janz (Augustana University College).

10. Tragic Dimensions of our Neocolonial 'Postcolonial World': Lewis Gordon (Purdue University).

11. Honor, Eunuchs, and the Postcolonial Subject: Leonard Harris (Purdue University).

12. Post-Philosophy and the Post-Colonial: John Pittman (John Jay College of Criminal Justice).

13. African Philosophy and the Post-Colonial: Some Misleading Abstractions about 'Identity': D. A. Masolo (Antioch College).

14. Democracy and Consensus in African Traditional Politics: A Plea for Non-Party Polity: Kwasi Wiredu (University of South Florida).

15. Of the Good use of Tradition: Keeping the Critical Perspective in African Philosophy: Jean-Marie Makang (University of Maryland).

16. Toward a Critical Theory of African (Post) Colonial Identities: Emmanuel Chuckwudi Eze (Bucknell University).

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