1st Edition

African Philosophical Currents

By John Murungi Copyright 2018
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

The history of the human world has reached a stage where no philosophical community can any longer philosophize in isolation from other philosophical communities. The African philosophical community is not an exception and neither is any other philosophical community. There is a widespread notion in the West that philosophy originated in Greece and found its way throughout Europe, from where it... Read more

Table of Contents



Introduction



Chapter One



The Crisis of Philosophy: African Dimension



Chapter Two



Erasure of African Philosophy





Chapter Three



Post-colonial African Body





Chapter Four



The African and the Cost of Being a Christian





Chapter Five



Decolonizing African Legal Philosophy



Chapter Six



Musical Aesthetics in African Life





Chapter Seven



Would Socrates Recognize Us





Epilogue

Biography

John Murungi is a Professor of Philosophy at Towson University, USA.