Philosophy in an African Place

by Janz, Bruce B.

• ISBN13: 9780739136683
• ISBN10: 0739136682
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-24
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Over the past few decades, there has been much effect put forth by philosophers to answer the question, "Is there an African philosophy?" In Philosophy in an African Place, Bruce B. Janz boldly changes this central question to "What is to do philosophy in this (African) place?" Janz argues that African philosophy has spent a lot of trying to define what African philosophy is, and in doing so has ironically been unable to properly conceptualize, African lived experience. He goes on to claim that such conceptualization can only occur when the central question is changed from the spatial to a new, platial one.

Author Biography

Bruce B. Janz is chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Philosophy-in-Place	p. 1
Tradition in the Periphery	p. 37
Questioning Reason	p. 63
"Wisdom Is Actually Thought"	p. 99
Culture and the Problem of Universality	p. 121
Listening to Language	p. 155
Practicality: African Philosophy's Debts and Duties	p. 185
Locating African Philosophy	p. 213
Bibliography	p. 253
Index	p. 265
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