An Essay on African Philosophical Thought / Edition 1

by Kwame Gyekye

Overview

Defining the main principles of a distinct African philosophy, this work rejects the idea that an African philosophy consists simply of the work of Africans writing on philosophy. It argues that critical analyses of specific traditional African modes of thought are necessary to develop a distinctively African philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566393805
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	09/08/1995
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	1440L (what's this?)

What People are Saying About This

W. E. Abraham

I find [Gyekye's] work brilliant in its approach, in its ideas, and in its argument. He asks courageous questions concerning the idea of an African philosophy and he not only succeeds in exposing the shallowness of some skeptical claims regarding that question but also clarifies the lines along which answers might properly be sought....His work is the most massive in a new generation of thoughtful approaches to an important question regarding human culture.
— (W. E. Abraham, University of California at Santa Cruz, and author of The Mind of Africa)

Editorial Reviews

The author builds an impressive case for an indigenous African philosophy which is different from but not inferior to European philosophy. This text is valuable because [of its] insights into the relationship between life and thought, philosophy and experience.
— Religious Studies Review

James H. Evans