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001 2002283789
003 DLC
005 20151201080356.0
008 020624s2002 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2002283789
020 $a0415939364 (alk. paper)
020 $a0415939372 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm49395054
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042 $alccopycat
043 $af------
050 00 $aB5305$b.B45 2002
082 00 $a199/.6$221
100 1 $aBell, Richard H.
245 10 $aUnderstanding African philosophy :$ba cross-cultural approach to classical and contemporary issues /$cRichard H. Bell.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2002.
300 $axviii, 189 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [171]-181) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Understanding Another Culture -- Understanding Others and Ourselves -- A Procedure from an Aesthetic Point of View -- "Found in Translation" -- 2. Foundations of Modern African 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 I: Community and Justice -- Persons, Individualism, and Communalism -- Suffering and Injustice -- Poverty and Human Development -- 5. African Moral Philosophy II: Truth and Reconciliation -- Linking Communalism, Ubuntu, and Restorative Justice -- Understanding the Grammar of Justice after Apartheid -- "Not All Storytelling Heals": Criticisms of the TRC 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 -- 7. Some Concluding Remarks.
650 0 $aPhilosophy, African.
650 0 $aPhilosophy$zAfrica.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/2002283789.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/2002283789-d.html