Understanding African Philosophy: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issues

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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