In My Fathers House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture - Rilegato

Appiah, Kwame Anthony

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ISBN 10: 0195068513 ISBN 13: 9780195068511

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 1992

Riassunto

Africa's intellectuals have long been engaged in a conversation with each other, and with Europeans and Americans about what it means to be African. At the heart of these debates on African identity are the seminal works of politicians, creative writers and philosophers from Africa and its diaspora. In this book, Appiah draws on his experiences as a Ghanaian in the New World to explore the writings of these African and African-American thinkers and to contribute his own vision of the possibilities and pitfalls of an African identity in the late twentieth century. Appiah sets out to dismantle the specious oppositions between "us" and "them," the West and the Rest, that have governed so much of the cultural debate about Africa in the modern world. All of us, he maintains, wherever we live on the planet, must explore together the relations between our local cultures and an increasingly global civilization. Combining philosophical analysis with more personal reflections, Appiah addresses the major issues in the philosophy of culture through an exploration of the contemporary African predicament.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Kwame Anthony Appiah is Professor of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. His books include Assertion and Conditionals (1985), For Truth in Semantics (1986), Necessary Questions (1989), and the novel Avenging Angel (1991). He is currently editing the Oxford Book of African Literature.

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Book by Appiah Kwame Anthony

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0195068513
• ISBN 13: 9780195068511
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida