African Philosophy And The Hermeneutics Of Culture
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African Philosophy and the Hermeneutics of Culture
Author | : Theophilus Okere |
Publsiher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3825882179 |
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The Series: Studies in African Philosophy is a forum for the publication and wider dissemination of researches and reflections of value on all aspects of African philosophy. While recognising the special advantage of interdisciplinary approach in modern scholarship, it retains a special predilection for works that have special African philosophic import. Although Theophilus Okere's book African Philosophy has made remarkable impact on African philosophical scholarship, many may not be aware of the way he tried to apply his preferred method to other areas of the philosophical investigation in Africa and to overcome the risk of relativism through the promotion of intercultural dialogue in philosophy. The essays published in this volume bear testimony to the multivalent character of Okere's contribution to African philosophy. Most of the essays are about Okere's hermeneutics of culture. Some of the authors examine the method in itself, while others focus attention on its application to specific philosophical themes. Book jacket.
The Dialectics of Praxis and Theoria in African Philosophy
Author | : B. Bin-Kapela |
Publsiher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2011-09-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789956726769 |
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This book is a clarion call for African renaissance informed by African spirituality. It develops the vision that Africans can be the same in the process of change. Africans have to coincide with their ways of perceiving values, and to retrieve their identity wiped out by regrettable historical events. Even in this involvement of revalorisation of their stifled ways, Africans have to be aware of the fact that history has evolved and new human environments are taking place. Any attempt to recover African personality involves a triple necessity. First, to remember the past, second, to analyse critically what Africans have inherited from their past, and lastly, to project new ways and means for a genuine renaissance, free from alienation and exploitation. Bin-Kapela sees in Cultural hermeneutics an appropriate philosophical method to achieve this end of recognising and projecting African spirituality as a universal value.
Intercultural Hermeneutics Understanding Culture and Religion
Author | : Chibueze Udeani |
Publsiher | : LIT Verlag |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2021-01-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783643964540 |
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New hermeneutical challenges abound within the process of globalisation especially as they pertain to culture and religion. Consequently, a new form of hermeneutics approached from an intercultural perspective is needed. This requires, if not a new set of hermeneutical tools then, at least, a serious, profound and critical analysis and constructive adaptation of the already available set of hermeneutical tools. Intercultural hermeneutics in the understanding of religion and culture and among cultures and religions is being proposed here as this new form of art or science of understanding. Chibueze C. Udeani is of Igbo origin and currently professor of missiology and dialogue of religions at Julius Maximilian's university Würzburg, Germany.
Identity and Change
Author | : Theophilus Okere |
Publsiher | : CRVP |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1565180712 |
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Continuity in a changing African culture; the phenomenon of the city in Africa; anthropology of name and self; values in flux and the moral dimension.
African Philosophy
Author | : Theophilus Okere |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : UOM:39015013964732 |
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A Short History of African Philosophy Second Edition
Author | : Barry Hallen |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2009-09-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780253003485 |
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A Short History of African Philosophy discusses major ideas, figures, and schools of thought in philosophy in the African context. While drawing out critical issues in the formation of African philosophy, Barry Hallen focuses on recent scholarship and relevant debates that have made African philosophy critical to understanding the rich and complex cultural heritage of the continent. This revised edition expands the historical perspective, takes account of recent discoveries and new canonical figures, highlights new discussions about gender as a cultural and philosophical phenomenon, clarifies issues regarding indigenous cultures and human rights, and builds on the notion that African philosophy shares methods and concerns of philosophy worldwide. This short reference is an essential resource for students, scholars, and general readers.
African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry
Author | : Ivan Karp,D. A. Masolo |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2000-11-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253214173 |
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This book assesses the direction and impact of African philosophy as well as its future role. What is the intellectual, social, cultural, and political territory of African philosophy? What directions will African philosophy take in the future? What problems will it face? In 10 probing essays by distinguished African, European, and American scholars, African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry examines the role of African philosophy at the opening of the new millennium. Here philosophy cuts across disciplinary boundaries to embrace ideas taken from history, literary studies, anthropology, and art. Addressing topics such as the progress of philosophical discourse, knowledge and modes of thought, the relevance of philosophy for cultures that are still largely based on traditional values, and the meaning of philosophy to cultures and individuals in the process of modernization, this volume presents today's best thinking about the concerns and practices that constitute African experience. New views about personhood, freedom, responsibility, progress, development, the role of the state, and life in civil society emerge from these broad-based considerations of the crisis of the postcolonial African state. In a lively fashion this diverse book shows how philosophical questions can be applied to interpretations of culture and reveals the multifaceted nature of philosophical discourse in the multiple and variable settings that exist in contemporary Africa.
Existence and Heritage
Author | : Tsenay Serequeberhan |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2015-10-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781438457895 |
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Explores overlapping concerns and themes in African(a) and continental philosophy. In Existence and Heritage, Tsenay Serequeberhan examines what the European philosophical tradition has to offer when encountered from the outsider perspective of postcolonial African thought. He reads Kant in the context of contemporary international relations, finds in Gadamers work a way of conceiving relations among differing traditions, and explores Heideggers analysis of existence as it converges with Marxs critique of alienation. In the confluence of these different assessments, Serequeberhan articulates both a need and example of responding to Fanons call for a new kind of thinking in philosophy. He demonstrates both how continental philosophy can be a useful resource for theorizing Africas postcolonial condition and how postcolonial thought and African philosophy can provide a new way of approaching and understanding the Western tradition.