Description
Product ID: | 9781566393805 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | An Essay on African Philosophical Thought |
Authors: | Author: Kwame Gyekye |
Page Count: | 296 |
Subjects: | Western philosophy from c 1800, Western philosophy, from c 1900 -, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Non-Western philosophy, Africa |
Description: | African philosopher Gyekye defines the main principles of a distinct African philosophy 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. |
Imprint Name: | Temple University Press,U.S. |
Publisher Name: | Temple University Press,U.S. |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1995-09-08 |