Download or read book An Introduction to African Philosophy written by Maurice Muhatia Makumba and published by Paulines Publications Africa. This book was released on 2007 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Echoes of Mt Erer written by Teninet Wendrad and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greatness of a nation is built upon six pillars of wisdom. Early civilisations had the pleasure to test those secrets and prosper bigtime. The book takes you to the mysterious Mt. Erer, which is believed to be the heartland of highest wisdom. In the dialogues between two men, you will hear the sounds of wisdom that rang out in the time of the first man and echoed through thousands of years.
Download or read book Ethiopia in Theory Revolution and Knowledge Production 1964 2016 written by Elleni Centime Zeleke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals. In these they explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist Ethiopia. Ethiopia in Theory examines the literature of this student movement, together with the movement’s afterlife in Ethiopian politics and society, in order to ask: what does it mean to write today about the appropriation and indigenisation of Marxist and mainstream social science ideas in an Ethiopian and African context; and, importantly, what does the archive of revolutionary thought in Africa teach us about the practice of critical theory more generally?
Download or read book Classical Ethiopian Philosophy written by Claude Sumner and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the basic texts of Ethiopian philosophy, each preceded by a specific introduction. Also includes a general introduction which emphasizes the place held by philosophy in Ethiopia from the fifth to eighteenth century. This introduction also determines the philosophical contribution of Ethiopia in relation to the thought of traditional wisdom throughout the African continent.
Download or read book Ethiopian Philosophy written by Claude Sumner and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Philosophy written by Maurice Muhatia Makumba and published by Paulines Publications Africa. This book was released on 2005 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Source of African Philosophy written by Claude Sumner and published by . This book was released on 1986-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Survival and Modernization Ethiopia s Enigmatic Present written by Messay Kebede and published by Red Sea Press(NJ). This book was released on 1999 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles the enigmatic question of Ethiopia's failure to modernise in spite of an absence of the major problems and deficiencies usually invoked to explain under-development. Combining sociological, political and philosophical analysis, it attempts to explain where things went wrong in the country's post colonial development and how instead of moving forward, the country has stagnated in the past.
Download or read book A Companion to African Philosophy written by Kwasi Wiredu and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of newly commissioned essays provides comprehensive coverage of African philosophy, ranging across disciplines and throughout the ages. Offers a distinctive historical treatment of African philosophy. Covers all the main branches of philosophy as addressed in the African tradition. Includes accounts of pre-colonial African philosophy and contemporary political thought.
Download or read book Haile Selassie Western Education and Political Revolution in Ethiopia written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The African Philosophy Reader written by P.H. Coetzee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 1027 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into eight sections, each with introductory essays, the selections offer rich and detailed insights into a diverse multinational philosophical landscape. Revealed in this pathbreaking work is the way in which traditional philosophical issues related to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology, for instance, take on specific forms in Africa's postcolonial struggles. Much of its moral, political, and social philosophy is concerned with the turbulent processes of embracing modern identities while protecting ancient cultures.
Download or read book Practical Philosophy written by H. Odera Oruka and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hatata Inquiries written by Zara Yaqob and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hatata Inquiries are two extraordinary texts of African philosophy composed in Ethiopia in the 1600s. Written in the ancient African language of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), these explorations of meaning and reason are deeply considered works of rhetoric. They advocate for women’s rights and rail against slavery. They offer ontological proofs for God and question biblical commands while delighting in the language of Psalms. They advise on right living. They put reason above belief, desire above asceticism, love above sectarianism, and the natural world above the human. They explore the nature of being as well as the nature of knowledge, the human, ethics, and the human relation with the divine. They are remarkable examples of something many assume doesn’t exist: early written African thought. This accessible English translation of the Hatata Inquiries, along with extensive footnotes documenting the cultural and historical context and the work’s many textual allusions, enables all to read it and scholars to teach with it. The Hatata Inquiries are essential to understanding the global history of philosophy, being among the early works of rational philosophy. The book includes a translation by Ralph Lee with Mehari Worku and Wendy Laura Belcher of the Hatata Zara Yaqob and the Hatata Walda Heywat. The appendices by Jeremy R. Brown provide information on the scribal interventions in and the differences between the manuscripts of the two Hatatas. The book also includes a map, chronology, summary of the translation principles, and a discussion of the authorship debate about the Hatata Inquiries.
Download or read book African Philosophy and Thought Systems written by Munyaradzi Mawere and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The once acrimonious debate on the existence of African philosophy has come of age, yet the need to cultivate a culture of belonging is more demanding now than ever before in many African societies. The gargantuan indelible energised chicanery waves of neo-colonialism and globalisation and their sweeping effect on Africa demand more concerted action and solutions than cul-de-sac discourses and magical realism. It is in view of this realisation that this book was born. This is a vital text for understanding contextual historical trends in the development of African philosophic ideas on the continent and how Africans could possibly navigate the turbulent catadromous waters, tangled webs and chasms of destruction, and chagrin of struggles that have engrossed Africa since the dawn of slavery and colonial projects on the continent. The book aims to generate more insights and influence national, continental, and global debates in the field of philosophy. It is accessible and handy to a wider range of readers, ranging from educators and students of African philosophy, anthropology, African studies, cultural studies, and all those concerned with the further development of African philosophy and thought systems on the African continent.
Download or read book African Philosophy and the Hermeneutics of Culture written by Theophilus Okere and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Series: Studies in African Philosophy is a forum for the publication and wider dissemination of researches and reflections of value on all aspects of African philosophy. While recognising the special advantage of interdisciplinary approach in modern scholarship, it retains a special predilection for works that have special African philosophic import. Although Theophilus Okere's book African Philosophy has made remarkable impact on African philosophical scholarship, many may not be aware of the way he tried to apply his preferred method to other areas of the philosophical investigation in Africa and to overcome the risk of relativism through the promotion of intercultural dialogue in philosophy. The essays published in this volume bear testimony to the multivalent character of Okere's contribution to African philosophy. Most of the essays are about Okere's hermeneutics of culture. Some of the authors examine the method in itself, while others focus attention on its application to specific philosophical themes. Book jacket.
Download or read book Popular Ethiopian Cinema written by Michael W. Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shines much-needed light on the history, structures and films of the Amharic film industry in Ethiopia. Focusing on the rise of the industry from 2002, until today, and embedded in archival, ethnographic and textual research methods, this book offers a sustained and detailed appreciation of Amharic-language cinema. Michael Thomas considers 'fiker'/love as an organising principle in national Ethiopian culture and, by extension, Amharic cinema. Placing 'fiker' as central to understanding Amharic film genres also illuminates the continuous negotiations at play between romantic, familial, patriotic and spiritual notions of love in these films. Thomas considers the production and exhibition of films in Ethiopia, charting fluctuations and continuities between the past and the present. Having done so, he offers detailed textual readings of films, identifying important junctures in the industry's development and the emergence of new genres. The findings of the book detail the affective characteristics that delineate most Amharic genres and the role culturally specific concepts, such as fiker, play in maintaining the relevance of commercial cinemas reliant on domestic audiences.
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy written by Adeshina Afolayan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook investigates the current state and future possibilities of African Philosophy, as a discipline and as a practice, vis-à-vis the challenge of African development and Africa’s place in a globalized, neoliberal capitalist economy. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the philosophical enterprise in Africa, especially with reference to current discourses, arguments and new issues—feminism and gender, terrorism and fundamentalism, sexuality, development, identity, pedagogy and multidisciplinarity, etc.—that are significant for understanding how Africa can resume its arrested march towards decolonization and liberation.
