An Introduction to Africana Philosophy
- New York Cambridge University 2008
- 275p
includes index and biblioraphy
Part I Groundings 1 Africana philosophy as a modern philosophy 21 2 Classic eighteenth- and nineteenth-century foundations 33 Anton Wilhelm Amo 35 Quobna Ottobah Cugoano 40 From David Walker`s Appeal to the founding of the American Negro Academy 46 Two Caribbean men of letters: An tenor Firmin and George Wilmot Blyden 56 Conclusion 65 Part II From New World to new worlds 3 Three pillars of African-American philosophy 69 Anna Julia Cooper and the problem of value 69 W. E. B. Du Bois and the problem of double consciousness 73 Fanon`s critique of failed dialectics of recognition 80 4 Africana philosophical movements in the United States and Britain 91 Prophetic and other recent forms of African-American pragmatism 93 Black feminist and womanist thought 100 Afrocentrism and Afrocentricity 106 African-American analytical philosophy 110 African-American and Afro-British European continental philosophy 120 Cedric Robinson`s anthropology of Marxism 128 African-American existential philosophy, phenomenology,and their influence 132 5 Afro-Caribbean philosophy 157 6 African philosophy 185 African humanism 186 The theme of invention in recent African philosophy 195 African critiques of invention 200 Recent African political thought 220