Hermeneutics is a crucial but neglected perspective in African philosophy. Here, Tsenay Serequeberhan engages post-colonial African literature and the ideas of the African liberation struggle with critically-used insights from the European philosophical tradition. Continuing the work of Theophilus Okere and Okonda Okolo, this book attempts to overcome the debate between ethnophilosophy and professional philosophy, demonstrating that the promise of African philosophy lies with the critical development of the African hermeneutical perspective.
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For us, contemporary Africans, the condition that has resulted from the colonial obliteration of the "standards and practices of our fathers," to use Plato's words, and the consequent neocolonial inertness of our contemporary situation is the necessary point of departure for any worthwhile or meaningful philosophic engagement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lived historicity, lived actuality, hermeneutical orientation, concrete historicity, ambiguous adventure, rural native, urban parties, political actuality, urban native, philosophic discourse, philosophical hermeneutics, historic ground, concrete actuality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
European Left, Present Context of Philosophy, Aimé Césaire, Black Skin, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, The Wretched of the Earth, White Masks, Ge-stell of European, South Africa, United States New!
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For us, contemporary Africans, the condition that has resulted from the colonial obliteration of the "standards and practices of our fathers," to use Plato's words, and the consequent neocolonial inertness of our contemporary situation is the necessary point of departure for any worthwhile or meaningful philosophic engagement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lived historicity, lived actuality, hermeneutical orientation, concrete historicity, ambiguous adventure, rural native, urban parties, political actuality, urban native, philosophic discourse, philosophical hermeneutics, historic ground, concrete actuality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
European Left, Present Context of Philosophy, Aimé Césaire, Black Skin, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, The Wretched of the Earth, White Masks, Ge-stell of European, South Africa, United States New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon on 17 pages
- Being and Time by Martin Heidegger on 13 pages
- Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon on 9 pages
- Philosophy of Right (Dover Philosophical Classics) by Georg W. F. Hegel on 6 pages
- Revolution in Guinea: Selected Texts by Amilcar Cabral on 6 pages
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- Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought (Africana Thought) by Lewis R. Gordon on 5 pages
- Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought (Africana Thought) by Lewis R. Gordon on 4 pages
- Fanon: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Critical Reader) by Lewis R. Gordon in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Africa's Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization (Value Inquiry Book Series 153) by Messay Kebede in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Problems of Resistance: Studies in Alternate Political Cultures (Radical Philosophy Today, V. 2) by Steve Martinot on page 276, page 286, and page 288
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