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The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Rethinking African Philosophy in the Age of Globalization
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    Chapter 2 African Philosophy: Appraisal of a Recurrent Problematic
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    Chapter 3 Archaeologies of African Thought in a Global Age
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    Chapter 4 A Philosophical Re-reading of Fanon, Nkrumah, and Cabral in the Age of Globalization and Postmodernity
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    Chapter 5 Africanizing Philosophy: Wiredu, Hountondji, and Mudimbe
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    Chapter 6 Oruka and Sage Philosophy: New Insights in Sagacious Reasoning
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    Chapter 7 Rethinking the History of African Philosophy
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    Chapter 8 The Question of African Logic: Beyond Apologia and Polemics
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    Chapter 9 Revisiting the Language Question in African Philosophy
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    Chapter 10 Is African Studies Afraid of African Philosophy?
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    Chapter 11 The Geography of African Philosophy
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    Chapter 12 Philosophy in Portuguese-Speaking Africa
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    Chapter 13 An Interpretive Introduction to Classical Ethiopian Philosophy
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    Chapter 14 Confucianism and African Philosophy
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    Chapter 15 Islamic Philosophy and the Challenge to African Philosophy
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    Chapter 16 The Philosophy of Afrocentricity
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    Chapter 17 “Black” Philosophy, “African” Philosophy, “Africana” Philosophy: Transnational Deconstructive and Reconstructive Renovations in “Philosophy”
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    Chapter 18 Between Africa and the Caribbean: The Nature of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
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    Chapter 19 The Advent of Black Thinkers and the Limits of Continental Philosophy
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    Chapter 20 On Vernacular Rationality: Gadamer and Eze in Conversation
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    Chapter 21 Sophia, Phronēsis, and the Universality of Ifá in African Philosophy
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    Chapter 22 Gendering African Philosophy, or: African Feminism as Decolonizing Force
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    Chapter 23 Feminism(s) and Oppression: Rethinking Gender from a Yoruba Perspective
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    Chapter 24 Africa and the Philosophy of Sexuality
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    Chapter 25 African Philosophy, Afropolitanism, and Africa
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    Chapter 26 Philosophy of Nationalism in Africa
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    Chapter 27 Sovereignty in Pre-colonial Mali and Northern Africa
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    Chapter 28 The Repressive State in African Literature: A Philosophical Reading
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    Chapter 29 Re-imagining the Philosophy of Decolonization
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    Chapter 30 Community, Communism, Communitarianism: An African Intervention
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    Chapter 31 African Humanism and Ethics: The Cases of Ubuntu and Omolúwàbí
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    Chapter 32 Ubuntu and the Emancipation of Law
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    Chapter 33 Philosophy and Artistic Creativity in Africa
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    Chapter 34 African Philosophy at the African Cinema
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    Chapter 35 Philosophy of Science and Africa
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    Chapter 36 Supporting African Renaissance: Afrocentric Leadership and the Imperative of Strong Institutions
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    Chapter 37 Africa and the Philosophy of Democratic Governance
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    Chapter 38 Indigenous (African) Knowledge Systems, Science, and Technology
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    Chapter 39 African Philosophy and the Challenge of Science and Technology
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    Chapter 40 Humanitatis-Eco (Eco-Humanism): An African Environmental Theory
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    Chapter 41 Ubuntu and the Environment
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    Chapter 42 African Philosophy in a World of Terror
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    Chapter 43 Yorùbá Conception of Peace
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    Chapter 44 African Philosophy and Education
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    Chapter 45 Ritual Archives
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    Chapter 46 Philosophy‚ Education‚ and Art in Africa
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    Chapter 47 Teaching African Philosophy and a Postmodern Dis-Position
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    Chapter 48 An African Philosophy for Children: Towards a Situated Paradigm
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    Chapter 49 African Philosophy as a Multidisciplinary Discourse
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    Chapter 50 A Bibliographical Report on African Philosophy
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Title
The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan US, January 2017
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59291-0
ISBNs
978-1-137-59291-0, 978-1-137-59290-3
Editors

Adeshina Afolayan, Toyin Falola

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Unknown 83 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 22%
Student > Master 12 14%
Student > Postgraduate 6 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 6%
Researcher 4 5%
Other 9 11%
Unknown 29 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 14 17%
Social Sciences 13 16%
Philosophy 12 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 4%
Environmental Science 2 2%
Other 10 12%
Unknown 29 35%