Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century
A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 7
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 April 2025
- ISBN 9780198927174
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages528 pages
- Size 240x160x45 mm
- Weight 770 g
- Language English 0
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Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century is the first of two volumes in the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series to bring readers the story of Africana philosophy. This diverse topic is defined as philosophy emerging from and distinctively related to Africa or the African diaspora.
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In this latest instalment of the series A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers delve into the fascinating world of Africana Philosophy.
Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century is the first of two volumes in the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series to bring readers the story of Africana philosophy. This diverse topic is defined as philosophy emerging from and distinctively related to Africa or the African diaspora. The story starts at the very beginning by asking what it would mean to engage philosophically with evidence left by prehistoric peoples of Africa, and proceeds to discuss the philosophical traditions of ancient Egypt, late ancient and early modern Ethopia, and Islamic philosophy in West Africa. A number of chapters then explore the idea of philosophy in African oral traditions, considering the methodological debates that have raged between African philosophers like John Mbiti, Paulin Hountondji, and Henry Odera Oruka.
Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers also consider philosophical responses to the situation brought about by the transatlantic slave trade and the early colonization of Africa. Starting from early figures like Anton Wilhelm Amo and Phillis Wheatley, and the ideas that drove the Haitian Revolution, extensive discussion is then given to Africana philosophy of the nineteenth century. The incendiary ideas of David Walker, the nuanced rhetoric of Frederick Douglass, and the clashing approaches of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois are among the highlights here. Significant attention is given to female thinkers like Maria W. Stewart, Sojourner Truth, Anna Julia Cooper, and Ida B. Wells. The coverage is also geographically diverse, with chapters on figures who worked not only in Africa and the United States, but also Brazil, Canada, Britain, France, and the Caribbean.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Locating and Debating Precolonial African Philosophy
Something Old, Something New: Introducing Africana Philosophy
It's Only Human: Philosophy in Prehistoric Africa
Fertile Ground: Philosophy in Ancient Mesopotamia
Pyramid Schemes: Philosophy in Ancient Egypt
Father Knows Best: Moral and Political Philosophy in the Instructions
Heated Exchanges: Philosophy in Egyptian Narratives and Dialogues
Solomon, Socrates, and Other Sages: Early Ethiopian Philosophy
One Truth: Zera Yacob
Think for Yourself: Walda Heywat
From Here to Timbuktu: Sub-Saharan Islamic Philosophy
Renewing the Faith: The Sokoto Caliphate
Heard it Through the Grapevine: Oral Philosophy in Africa
Event Horizon: African Philosophy of Time
One to Rule Them All: God in African Philosophy
Behind the Mask: African Philosophy of the Person
I Am Because We Are: Communalism in African Ethics and Politics
The Doctor Will See You Now: Divination, Witchcraft, and Knowledge
Women Have No Tribe: Gender in African Tradition
Professionally Speaking: The Reaction Against Ethnophilosophy
Wise Guys: Sage Philosophy
Beyond the Reaction: The Continuing Relevance of Precolonial Traditions
Slavery and the Creation of Diasporic Africana Philosophy
Out of Africa: Slavery and the Diaspora
Dualist Personality: Anton Wilhelm Amo
Talking Book: Early Africana Writing in English
Young, Gifted, and Black: Phillis Wheatley
New England Patriot: Lemuel Haynes
Letters from the Heart: Ignatius Sancho and Benjamin Banneker
Sons of Africa: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano
Liberty, Equality, Humanity: The Haitian Revolution
My Haitian Pen: Baron de Vastey
American Africans: Early Black Institutions in the US
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Colonization Controversy
Kill or Be Killed: David Walker's Appeal
Religion and Pure Principles: Maria W. Stewart
Unnatural Causes: Hosea Easton's Treatise
Written by Himself: The Life of Frederick Douglass
Happy Holidays: Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass
Let Your Motto Be Resistance: Henry Highland Garnet
Nation Within a Nation: Martin Delany
I Read Men and Nations: Sojourner Truth and Frances Harper
Great White North: Emigration to Canada
Pilgrim's Progress: Alexander Crummell
Planting the Seeds: James Africanus Beale Horton
African Personality: Edward Blyden
Race First, Then Party: T. Thomas Fortune
A Common Circle: Anténor Firmin
Frowning at Froudacious Fabrications: J.J. Thomas and F.A. Durham
Though Late, It Is Liberty: Abolitionism in Brazil
When and Where I Enter: Anna Julia Cooper
American Barbarism: Ida B. Wells
God is a Negro: Henry McNeal Turner
Separate Fingers, One Hand: Booker T. Washington
Lifting the Veil: Introducing W.E.B. Du Bois
