1st Edition

The Hermeneutics of African Philosophy Horizon and Discourse

By Tsenay Serequeberhan Copyright 1994
    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    Hermeneutics is a crucial but neglected perspective in African philosophy. Here, Tsenay Serequeberhan engages post-colonial African literature and the ideas of the African liberation struggle with critically-used insights from the European philosophical tradition. Continuing the work of Theophilus Okere and Okonda Okolo, this book attempts to overcome the debate between ethnophilosophy and professional philosophy, demonstrating that the promise of African philosophy lies with the critical development of the African hermeneutical perspective.

    Introduction; Chapter 1 Philosophy and Post-colonial Africa; Chapter 2 African Philosophy; Chapter 3 Colonialism and the Colonized; Chapter 4 The Liberation Struggle; Chapter 5 Conclusion;

    Biography

    Tsenay Serequeberhan