Critical Conversations in African Philosophy: Asixoxe - Let's Talk

ISBN-13: 9780367776046 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 244 str.

Alena Rettová; Benedetta Lanfranchi; Miriam Pahl

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In this edited collection contributors examine key themes, sources and methods in contemporary African Philosophy,　building on a　wide-ranging understanding of what constitutes African philosophy, and drawing from a variety of both oral and written texts of different genres.

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Introduction. African Philosophy from the Things Themselves Part I: Themes  Chapter 1: Technology as Domination or Liberation? An Analysis of the Philosophy of Technology in Relation to African Philosophy and Development Initiatives, Aviv Milgram  Chapter 2: Epistemic pragmatism and the problem of relativism: implications of comparisons between epistemic concepts in Yorùbá and English language analytic epistemology, Yola West-Dennis  Chapter 3: Euphrase Kezilahabi’s thinking poetry: his philosophy, his poetics and Kerewe oral poetry. Roberto Gaudioso  Chapter 4: Absurditea: The Unity of Being, the Absurd, and the Importance of the Circle in Euphrase Kezilahabi’s "Chai ya Jioni" Tom Jelpke  Chapter 5: Mbiti Revisited: Acknowledging the affinity between the philosophies of time of John S. Mbiti and Edmund Husserl and asserting the importance of an inclusive philosophy of the afterlife, Claire Amaladoss  Chapter 6: African versus Western Time or Philosophies of Time? Exploring the Possibilities of Philosophical Dialogue across African and Western Traditions of Thought, Benedetta Lanfranchi  Part II: Sources  Chapter 7: Philosophising by proxy: a hermeneutic critique of African philosophical literature from the twin imaginaries of collective or individual thought, and the divisibility of culture and philosophy, Brett Pollack  Chapter 8: Found in Translation: Multilingualism and Philosoph, Ella Hiesmayr  Chapter 9: Epistemology and literature: Positivism, indeterminacy, holism, and relativism in the Swahili novel, Alena Rettová  Chapter 10: "If we knew the reality of things, we would be the masters of our own lives." Reflections of a West African Diviner, Louis Brenner  Chapter 11: Clarity through comparative philosophy, Becca Stacey