"Africa's intellectuals have long been engaged in a conversation among themselves and with Europeans and Americans about what it means to be African. At the heart of these debates on African identity are the seminal works of politicians, creative writers, and philosophers from Africa and i...

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1. Verfasser:	Appiah, Kwame Anthony 1954- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York u.a. Oxford Univ. Press 1992
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1900-2000 Cultuurfilosofie Identiteit Philosophie africaine Identität Philosophie Kultur Kulturelle Identität Geistesleben Elite Afrique - Civilisation Afrique - Vie intellectuelle - 20e siècle Afrika Africa > Civilization > Philosophy Africa > Intellectual life > 20th century Subsaharisches Afrika
Zusammenfassung:	"Africa's intellectuals have long been engaged in a conversation among themselves and with Europeans and Americans about what it means to be African. At the heart of these debates on African identity are the seminal works of politicians, creative writers, and philosophers from Africa and its diaspora. In this book, Appiah asks how we should think about the cultural situation of these intellectuals, reading their works in the context both of European and American ideas and of Africa's own indigenous traditions." "Appiah draws on his experiences as a Ghanaian in the New World to explore the writings of African and African-American thinkers. In the process, he contributes his own vision of the possibilities and pitfalls of an African identity in the late twentieth century." "Setting out to dismantle the specious oppositions between "us" and "them," the West and the Rest, that have governed so much of the cultural debate about Africa in the modern world, Appiah maintains that all of us, wherever we live on the planet, must explore together the relations between our local cultures and an increasingly global civilization. Appiah combines philosophical analysis with more personal reflections, addressing the major issues in the philosophy of culture through an exploration of the contemporary African predicament."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	XI, 225 S.
ISBN:	0195068513