Understanding African Philosophy
A Cross-Cultural Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2591870 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gail Presbey, Gail M Presbey (0000-0001-5798-2605, corresponding author), Richard H Bell (0000-0003-0624-3348) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 138 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-3968 • E-ISSN: 1923-3051 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4107371 |
| OpenAlex | W1552100169 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 44 |
Preface Acknowledgements 1. Understanding Another Culture: Understanding others and ourselves A procedure from an aesthetic point of view 'Found in Translation' 2. Foundations in Modern 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 1: Community and Justice: Persons, individualism and communalism Suffering and injustice Poverty and human development 5. African Moral Philosophy II: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation: Linking communalism, ubuntu and 'restorative justice' Understanding the grammar of justice after apartheid 'Not all storytelling heals': Criticisms of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 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 Some Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index
Aesthetics · African philosophy · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Injustice · Literacy · Narrative · Orality · Political science · Social science · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Law · Philosophy
Patriarchal Usurpation of the Modjadji Dynasty
Okolo's African Being-with and Heidegger's Idea of Mitsein
The culture-oriented bias of African philosophical inquiry
The prefix “African” and its implication for philosophy in Africa
Reconstructing Eastern paradigms of discourse studies
‘…If It Means He Gets His Humanity Back…’
African communalism and public health policies
Consensus or Disharmony in African Philosophy Conversations
Human rights in Africa
As Categorias Cultura, História E Liberdade Como Vectores Na Evolução E Legitimação Da Filosofia Africana
As I was Saying in Berlin
Books of Critical Interest
(Re)creating spaces foruMunthu
Conceptions of "Child" among Traditional Africans
Wiki approaches to wicked problems
The Return of the Gods? Trends and Implications of the Rising Popularity of Fetish Rituals and Occult Practices Among Nigerian Youth
Research into Reconciliation and Forgiveness at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Homi Bhabha’s “Architecture of the New”
The Dimensions of Diversity
Levinas and the Possibility of Dialogue with “Strangers”
Ubuntu Philosophy as a Technology for the Foundational Architecture of African Ecclesiology in Reference to Harvest Revival Ministry Churches in Kenya
Promoting restorative justice as de jure punishment
From barbarism to decadence without the intervening civilization
Cross-cultural identity in the notions of Ubuntu of Augustine Shutte and Kwame Gyekye
Is restorative justice punishment
Individualistic Versus Relational Ethics – A Contestable Concept for (African) Philosophy
Kun Coo Kun Coo – Men for Men and the Curse in a Blessing
Do Truth Commissions Promote Trust in the Judiciary in African States
African Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Human Rights
Abiola Irele and the Context of African Philosophy Discourse
Indigenous Governance Systems and Democracy in Ethiopia
Raza y género en el marco de la diferencia ontológica colonial
Nietzsche and Ubuntu
Restorative Justice and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Process
De- and rehumanization in the wake of atrocities
Ubuntu, transimmanence and ethics
‘This thing called reconciliation…‘ forgiveness as part of an interconnectedness-towards-wholeness
The Bewaji, Van Binsbergen and Ramose debate on Ubuntu
Pursuing the agenda of Africanising philosophy in Africa
Deliberative epistemology
Surveillance and cultural Panopticism
Ubuntu como filosofia moral
Quandaries of Legitimacy
African Philosophy and the Decolonisation of Education in Africa
The 'anti-sociality' of social media as portrayed in selected Zimdancehall songs
| Unique citing works | 44 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,91 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2024 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |