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Title: Trends and Issues in African Philosophy

Trends and Issues in African Philosophy

by Frederick Ochieng-Odhiambo (Author)
©2010 Monographs XII, 237 Pages
Theology & Philosophy

Summary

This book provides an excellent orientation to, and a logical development of, the major trends and issues that have dominated discussions in African philosophy since the publication of Placide Tempels’ Bantu Philosophy in 1945. Views of some of the best-known African philosophers, such as Kwasi Wiredu, Paulin Hountondji, H. Odera Oruka, Peter Bodunrin, and D. A. Masolo are discussed in detail. The text takes into account, in the form of quotations or referencing, the views of several other philosophers who have had something to say about African philosophy. This book facilitates an excellent orientation on African philosophy at the undergraduate level. Those pursuing African philosophy at the graduate level will find the text refreshingly novel.

Details

Pages
XII, 237
Year
2010
ISBN (PDF)
9781453900642
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433107504
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-0064-2
Language
English
Publication date
2011 (March)
Keywords
Philosophy African philosophy Ethnophilosophy Philosophical Sagacity Nationalist-Ideological Philosophy Philosophical Hermeneutics Professional Philosophy
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2010. XII, 237 pp.

Biographical notes

Frederick Ochieng-Odhiambo (Author)

The Author: F. Ochieng’-Odhiambo received his Ph.D. from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He is currently affiliated with the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus, Barbados, where he developed and teaches courses in African philosophy. He previously taught African philosophy, logic, and social-political philosophy at the University of Nairobi, the Institute of Philosophy (Lang’ata, Kenya), and the National University of Lesotho (southern Africa). His research interest is African philosophy with a focus on philosophic sagacity, an area in which he has written several journal articles. He is the author of Logic and Induction (1996), African Philosophy: An Introduction (1997), Introductory Symbolic Logic (2003), Conversations in Philosophy (2008), and Foundations of Ethics (2009).

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