Philosophy and an African Culture Wiredu Kwasi
Philosophy and an African Culture Wiredu Kwasi What can philosophy contribute to African culture? Could there be a truly African philosophy that goes beyond traditional folk thought? What can it draw…
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Philosophy and an African Culture Wiredu Kwasi
What can philosophy contribute to African culture? Could there be a truly African philosophy that goes beyond traditional folk thought? What can it draw from it?
He shows how they can assimilate the advances of analytical philosophy and apply them to the general social and intellectual changes associated with 'modernisation' and the transition to new national identities. Kwasi Wiredu tries in these essays to define and demonstrate a role for contemporary African philosophers which is distinctive but by no means parochial. But we see too how they can exploit traditional resources and test the assumptions of Western philosophy against the intimations of their own language and culture.
The volume as a whole presents some of the best non-technical work of a distinguished African philosopher, of importance equally to professional philosophers and to those with a more general interest in