Understanding African philosophy : a cross-cultural approach to classical and contemporary issues / / Richard H. Bell.
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| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 189 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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.