• AIU
  • Tony Wilmot Memorial Library
Image from Google Jackets

Tradition and modernity : philosophical reflections on the African experience / Kwame Gyekye.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997.Description: xix, 338 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0195112253
  • 0195112261 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 960.3/01 20
LOC classification:
  • DT352.4 .G94 1997
Contents:
Ch. 1. Philosophy and Human Affairs. 1. The Nature and Purpose of Philosophy. 2. Philosophy: Not a System of Beliefs? 3. Philosophy as a Conceptual Response to Human Situations. 4. Philosophy and the African Experience -- Ch. 2. Person and Community: In Defense of Moderate Communitarianism. 1. Communitarianism in African Moral and Political Theory: Moderate or Radical? 2. Community, Social Relationships, and the Common Good. 3. Communal Structure and Personhood. 4. Rights, Responsibilities, and the Communal Structure. 5. Communitarianism and Supererogationism -- Ch. 3. Ethnicity, Identity, and Nationhood. 1. Nation as an Ethnocultural Community. 2. Nation as a Multinational State. 3. Beyond N[subscript 2]: Towards Nationhood. 4. National Culture and Identity -- Ch. 4. Traditional Political Ideas, Values, and Practices: Their Status in the Modern Setting. 1. Observations on the Democratic Character of the Traditional African Political System.
2. Chiefship and Political Authority. 3. Democratic Elements in the Traditional Akan Political Practice. 4. Creating Modern Democratic Institutions. 5. The Need for a Comprehensive Conception of Democracy -- Ch. 5. The Socialist Interlude. 1. The Alleged Traditional Matrix of African Socialism. 2. Private Enterprise in the Traditional African System. 3. Socialism or Humanism? 4. The Pursuit of Marxian Socialism in Postcolonial Africa. 5. On the Concept of Ideology -- Ch. 6. Quandaries in the Legitimation of Political Power. 1. The Meaning of the Concept. 2. Losing Legitimacy -- Ch. 7. Political Corruption: A Moral Pollution. 1. Political Corruption: What Is It? 2. Political Corruption in the Politics of Traditional Africa. 3. The Moral Circumstances of Political Corruption -- Ch. 8. Tradition and Modernity. 1. On the Notion of Tradition. 2. Attitudes toward a Cultural Past. 3. Normative Consideration of Our African Cultural Products.
4. The Legacy of the Past in the Present. 5. On the Notion of Modernity -- Ch. 9. Epilogue: Which Modernity? Whose Tradition?
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Books Books AIU/NEGST - Tony Wilmot Memorial Library General Stacks General Circulation DT352.4 .G94 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available T00440W3232

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Ch. 1. Philosophy and Human Affairs. 1. The Nature and Purpose of Philosophy. 2. Philosophy: Not a System of Beliefs? 3. Philosophy as a Conceptual Response to Human Situations. 4. Philosophy and the African Experience -- Ch. 2. Person and Community: In Defense of Moderate Communitarianism. 1. Communitarianism in African Moral and Political Theory: Moderate or Radical? 2. Community, Social Relationships, and the Common Good. 3. Communal Structure and Personhood. 4. Rights, Responsibilities, and the Communal Structure. 5. Communitarianism and Supererogationism -- Ch. 3. Ethnicity, Identity, and Nationhood. 1. Nation as an Ethnocultural Community. 2. Nation as a Multinational State. 3. Beyond N[subscript 2]: Towards Nationhood. 4. National Culture and Identity -- Ch. 4. Traditional Political Ideas, Values, and Practices: Their Status in the Modern Setting. 1. Observations on the Democratic Character of the Traditional African Political System.

2. Chiefship and Political Authority. 3. Democratic Elements in the Traditional Akan Political Practice. 4. Creating Modern Democratic Institutions. 5. The Need for a Comprehensive Conception of Democracy -- Ch. 5. The Socialist Interlude. 1. The Alleged Traditional Matrix of African Socialism. 2. Private Enterprise in the Traditional African System. 3. Socialism or Humanism? 4. The Pursuit of Marxian Socialism in Postcolonial Africa. 5. On the Concept of Ideology -- Ch. 6. Quandaries in the Legitimation of Political Power. 1. The Meaning of the Concept. 2. Losing Legitimacy -- Ch. 7. Political Corruption: A Moral Pollution. 1. Political Corruption: What Is It? 2. Political Corruption in the Politics of Traditional Africa. 3. The Moral Circumstances of Political Corruption -- Ch. 8. Tradition and Modernity. 1. On the Notion of Tradition. 2. Attitudes toward a Cultural Past. 3. Normative Consideration of Our African Cultural Products.

4. The Legacy of the Past in the Present. 5. On the Notion of Modernity -- Ch. 9. Epilogue: Which Modernity? Whose Tradition?

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.
Share