African Philosophy
Myth and Reality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3912266 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Nooter Roberts |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 393 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | African Philosophy, Second Edition: Myth and Reality, Paulin J Hountondji, 1996 |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/221109 |
| OpenAlex | W2795495363, W1480105984 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Preface to the second edition Introduction by Abiola Irele Part One: Arguments 1. An alienated literature 2. History of a myth 3. African philosophy, myth, and reality 4. Philosophy and its revolutions Part Two: Analyses 5. An African philosopher in Germany in the eighteenth century: Anton-Wilhelm Amo 6. The end of 'Nkrumaism' and the (re)birth of Nkrumah 7. The idea of philosophy in Nkrumah's Consciencism 8. True and false pluralism Postscript Notes and references Index
Epistemology · Mythology · Theology · African cultural and philosophical studies · African history and culture analysis · Philosophy
Conflicting reactions to chi’ixnakax utxiwa
Why African (Akan) thought has no concept of race
Agamben at Legon, or, Teaching “Theory” in an African University
O tonalismo como força colonizadora na África
An essay concerning the foundational myth of ethnophilosophy
Addressing Uduma’s Africanness of a Philosophy Question and Shifting the Paradigm from Metaphilosophy to Conversational Philosophy
African studies through language-based techniques
Innocent Onyewuenyi’s “Philosophical re-appraisal of the African belief in reincarnation”
The prefix “African” and its implication for philosophy in Africa
African Philosophy Reconsidered
Ecocriticism
Transforming the Conversation
Which journal is that?’ Politics of academic promotion in Uganda and the predicament of African publication outlets
African Philosophy of Religion
Language and human rights discourses in Africa
The right to traditional, complementary, and alternative health care
I Am as Fit as a Fiddle”
The Denial of African Agency
Kwasi Wiredu’s consensual democracy
Friendly Africans, Deceptive White Men
Philosophical foundations for African development
Antinomies of African aesthetics and the impulses of aesthetic relativism
A Psychology of Indigenous Healing in Southern Africa
Ancestral Consciousness in the Zulu Culture
The Description and Evaluation of an African Breath Psychotherapeutic Workshop
The Question of a Prehistory
Réponse d'attente
Reading Mudimbe, applying 'Mudimbe', turning an insider out
Izibongo - the political art of praising
Recovering praxis
The Philosophical Dilemma of Conserving the African Heritage
Community and Individual in the Aftermath of War
The problem of gerontocracy in Africa
The economics and politics of international preservation collaborations
Essence or experience? A new direction for African psychology
The Contradictory Position of 'Tradition' in African Nationalist Discourse
Conceptual Analysis and African Philosophy
Textures of African Thought
Reason and Culture
Exiled from History
Exploring rurality and ethnicity in globalised higher education
Beyond southern urbanism? Imagining an urban geography of a world of cities
‘Blackness’, the Body and Epistemological and Epistemic Traps
Paulin Hountondji, Knowledge as Science, and the Sovereignty of African Intellection
Toward a global sociology of knowledge
Contesting Northern knowledge
Tempels’ Philosophical Racialism
Philosophy in the ‘house of stone’
Rethinking the aptness of the analytic method in African philosophy in the light of Hallen and Sodipo’s knowledge-belief distinction
A response to Metz's reply on the end of ubuntu
A proper conversation
Unveiling the entanglements of Western Christianity and racialisation in Africa
Africanisation', African identities and emancipation in contemporary South Africa
Perspectivity and the Activist Potential of the Sociology Classroom
Culture Trumps Scientific Fact
Lendo a teoria sociológica a contrapelo
Reading sociological theory against its grain
The Cross-Cultural Application of Analytical Psychology
One world, one psychology
African Psychology
Critical Comments on Pearce, African Philosophy, and the Sociological Thesis
African Philosophy and the Sociological Thesis
How to be a Universalist about Methods in African Philosophy
Ideology Critique 2.0
Do Western Sociological Concepts Apply Globally? Towards a Global Sociology
Cultivating Disconcertment
From Myth to Reality
Theory, Literature, and Moral Considerations
Abiola Irele and the Context of African Philosophy Discourse
African Proverbs, Riddles, and Narratives as Pedagogy
Gebrehiwot Baykedagn, Eurocentrism, and the Decentering of Ethiopia
The Ontology of Kwame Nkrumah's Consciencism and the Democratic Theory and Practice in Africa
Revisiting the debates on “epistemicide”
Ecojustice education and communitarianism
African Philosophy and the Decolonisation of Education in Africa
Why the 'Politics' against African Philosophy should be Discontinued
Canadian Philosophy from a Cosmopolitan Point of View
Levinas, Europe and others
Sociology, sociologists and core-periphery reflections
Rereading the History and Historiography of Epistemic Domination and Resistance in Africa
Is It Ethical to Study Africa? Preliminary Thoughts on Scholarship and Freedom
Wipe the Blackboard Clean
We need to open our doors and windows and breathe the fresh air of the ocean
African Studies Keyword
Academic Standards or Academic Imperialism? Zimbabwean perceptions of hegemonic power in the global construction of knowledge
Manjaco Rulers After a Revolution
Knowledge and Intellectual Practice in A Swahili Context
Mainstream English Language Press Journalists’ Perceptions Towards the Indigenous-Language Press in Zimbabwe
Power, Meaning and Geopolitics
Colonial Systems of Control
A Relational Moral Theory
Global Health
Australia in the global dynamics of social science
The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa
Sophie Olúwolé of Nigeria 1935–2018
Philosophy of African American Studies
Sociology and the future
A contested terrain
The powers of nature
Beyond belief? Play, scepticism, and religion in a West African village
| Highly cited | No |
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