The invention of Africa

Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6568691
AutoresV Y Mudimbe, V Mudimbe
Ano1988
Páginas241
Data de publicação1988-01-01
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
Resenhado porThe Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge, Andrew Apter, 1991
Resenhado porThe Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge, Christopher Gray, 1989
Resenhado porThe Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge, Ladislav Holy, 1989
PeriódicoThe invention of Africa (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/2080.0
ISBN9780253204684, 9780253331267
Open LibraryOL2408099M
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1.255

"What is the meaning of Africa and being an African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism? These are the kinds of fundamental questions that this book addresses. V.Y. Mudimbe argues that the various discourses themselves establish the worlds of thought in which people conceive their identity. Western anthropology and missionaries have introduced distortions not only for outsiders but also for Africans trying to understand themselves. Mudimbe goes beyond the classic issues of African anthropology or history. He says that the book attempts an archeology of African gnosis as a system of knowledge in which major philosophical questions recently have arisen: first, concerning the form, the content, and the style of Africanizing knowledge; second, concerning the status of traditional systems of thought. He is directly concerned with the processes of transformation of different types of knowledge."--Book cover

Knowledge · 199/.6 · African · African Philosophy · Afrikaanse filosofie · B5310 .m84 1988 · Civilization · Négritude · Philosophie africaine · Philosophy · Philosophy, African · Théorie de la connaissance · Theory of knowledge · Wetenschap