An Essay on African Philosophical Thought: Akan Conceptual Scheme

Title: An Essay on African Philosophical Thought: Akan Conceptual Scheme

Author: Gyekye, Kwame

ISBN: 9781566393805

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Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.

Publication Date: 1995-09-08

Number of Pages: 296

Weight: 0.3403 kg

I find [Gyekye's] work brilliant in its approach, in its ideas, and in its argument. He asks courageous questions concerning the idea of an African philosophy and he not only succeeds in exposing the shallowness of some skeptical claims regarding that question but also clarifies the lines along which answers might properly be sought... His work is the most massive in a new generation of thoughtful approaches to an important question regarding human culture. --W.E. Abraham, University of California at Santa Cruz, and author of The Mind of Africa The author builds an impressive case for an indigenous African philosophy which is different from but not inferior to European philosophy. This text is valuable because [of its] insights into the relationship between life and thought, philosophy and experience. --James H. Evans, Jr., Religious Studies Review [A] wonderful starting point for understanding black peoples on all sides of the Atlantic. --Colors Magazine ...anyone interested in questions in the philosophy of culture--especially, though by no means only, in Africa--should profit from Gyekye's work... This book is rewarding reading. --Kwame Anthony Appiah, Times Literary Supplement