African Philosophical Currents

ISBN-13: 9780367591472 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 142 str.

John Murungi

Opis

This book argues that Philosophy did not migrate to African from anywhere but that it is radically native to all communities.The chapters cover the erasure of African philosophy, African philosophical departures, the threat that Christianity has posed to African philosophy, African legal philosophy, African musical aesthetics and connections with c

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One

The Crisis of Philosophy: African Dimension

Chapter Two

Erasure of African Philosophy

Chapter Three

Post-colonial African Body

Chapter Four

The African and the Cost of Being a Christian

Chapter Five

Decolonizing African Legal Philosophy

Chapter Six

Musical Aesthetics in African Life

Chapter Seven

Would Socrates Recognize Us

Epilogue

O autorze

John Murungi is a Professor of Philosophy at Towson University, USA.