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Focuses on contemporary African intellectuals,
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This review is from: The African Philosophy Reader (Paperback)
"The African Philosophy Reader" is an excellent collection of essays, and is intended for undergraduates and beginners in African philosophy. The volume is heavily weighted towards contemporary African intellectuals, and draws heavily from regional African philosophies such as those in Ghana, Nigeria, and Uganda. With regard to South Africa, book claims that there is no regional philosophy--rather philosophy in S. Africa follows the analytic/continental split found in Anglophone traditions in USA and Europe. Steve Biko's inclusion represents political philosophy in S. Africa. The book focuses early on on deconstructing Eurocentricity in anthropological constructions of African persons and worldviews. Elsewhere the volume aims to delineate philosophical trends in Africa and develops a crtical understanding of the "culture concept" with regard to these trends, as well as with regard to the development of mutliple rationalities by which different African philosophies proceed (Marlene Van Niekerk). There is also a useful critique of the entire subject of "Ethnophilosophy" by K. Anthony Appiah. (...)
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The African Philosophy Reader by P. H. Coetzee (Paperback - August 25, 1998)
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