Africana philosophy from ancient Egypt to the nineteenth century /
'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 Afri...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | History of philosophy without any gaps ;
volume 7. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I Locating and Debating Precolonial African Philosophy
- 1 Something Old, Something New: Introducing Africana Philosophy
- 2 It's Only Human: Philosophy in Prehistoric Africa
- 3 Fertile Ground: Philosophy in Ancient Mesopotamia
- 4 Pyramid Schemes: Philosophy in Ancient Egypt
- 5 Father Knows Best: Moral and Political Philosophy in the Instructions
- 6 Heated Exchanges: Philosophy in Egyptian Narratives and Dialogues
- 7 Solomon, Socrates, and Other Sages: Early Ethiopian Philosophy
- 8 Only One Truth: Zera Yacob
- 9 Think for Yourself: Walda Heywat
- 10 From Here to Timbuktu: Sub-Saharan Islamic Philosophy
- 11 Renewing the Faith: The Sokoto Caliphate
- 12 Heard It Through the Grapevine: Oral Philosophy in Africa
- 13 Event Horizon: African Philosophy of Time
- 14 One to Rule Them All: God in African Philosophy
- 15 Behind the Mask: African Philosophy of the Person
- 16 I Am Because We Are: Communalism in African Ethics and Politics
- 17 The Doctor Will See You Now: Divination, Witchcraft, and Knowledge
- 18 Women Have No Tribe: Gender in African Tradition
- 19 Professionally Speaking: The Reaction Against Ethnophilosophy
- 20 Wise Guys: Sage Philosophy
- 21 Beyond the Reaction: The Continuing Relevance of Precolonial Traditions
- Part II Slavery and the Creation of Diasporic Africana Philosophy
- 22 Out of Africa: Slavery and the Diaspora
- 23 Dualist Personality: Anton Wilhelm Amo
- 24 Talking Book: Early Africana Writing in English
- 25 Young, Gifted, and Black: Phillis Wheatley
- 26 New England Patriot: Lemuel Haynes
- 27 Letters from the Heart: Ignatius Sancho and Benjamin Banneker
- 28 Sons of Africa: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano
- 29 Liberty, Equality, Humanity: The Haitian Revolution
- 30 My Haitian Pen: Baron de Vastey
- 31 American Africans: Early Black Institutions in the US
- 32 Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Colonization Controversy
- 33 Kill or Be Killed: David Walker's Appeal
- 34 Religion and Pure Principles: Maria W. Stewart
- 35 Unnatural Causes: Hosea Easton's Treatise
- 36 Written by Himself: The Life of Frederick Douglass
- 37 Happy Holidays: Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass
- 38 Let Your Motto Be Resistance: Henry Highland Garnet
- 39 Nation Within a Nation: Martin Delany
- 40 I Read Men and Nations: Sojourner Truth and Frances Harper
- 41 Great White North: Emigration to Canada
- 42 Pilgrim's Progress: Alexander Crummell
- 43 Planting the Seeds: James Africanus Beale Horton
- 44 African Personality: Edward Blyden
- 45 Race First, Then Party: T. Thomas Fortune
- 46 A Common Circle: Anténor Firmin
- 47 Frowning at Froudacious Fabrications: J.J. Thomas and F.A. Durham
- 48 Though Late, It Is Liberty: Abolitionism in Brazil
- 49 When and Where I Enter: Anna Julia Cooper
- 50 American Barbarism: Ida B. Wells
- 51 God is a Negro: Henry McNeal Turner
- 52 Separate Fingers, One Hand: Booker T. Washington
- 53 Lifting the Veil: Introducing W.E.B. Du Bois