Description
Book SynopsisAdvances understandings of what it means to be human - whether of African or other origin. This title offers solutions for containing socially destructive conduct and antisocial tendencies by engaging community.
Trade Review"D. A. Masolo is one of the leading African philosophers and nobody who has studied his African Philosophy in Search of Identity can fail to be excited when they pick up this new book." -Robert Bernasconi, Penn State University "Inspiring not only to those who are directly related to the African discussion, but also to any thinker who asks how in the world we can coexist with that which makes us singular and that which we share with the other." -Jean-Godefroy Bidima, Tulane University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Philosophy and Indigenous Knowledge
2. Philosophy and the Orders of Consciousness
3. Revaluation of Values and the Demand for Liberties
4. Understanding Personhood: An African Philosophical Anthropology
5. Juok as the Moral Foundation of Personhood
6. Two Forms of Communitarianism: A Comparison
In Lieu of a Conclusion: A Village Symposium on Experience
Notes
References
Index
