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African Philosophy 2 CONTENTS 6 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION 7 Notes 25 References 26 INTRODUCTION 29 PART ONE ARGUMENTS 53 1 An Alienated Literature* 54 Archeology: Western 'Ethnophilosophy' 55 Political Criticism 57 From Tempels to Kagamé: Continuity and Discontinuity 59 The Unshackling of Discourse 65 2 History of a Myth* 68 3 African Philosophy, Myth and Reality* 76 The Popular Concept of African Philosophy 77 Towards a New Concept of 'African Philosophy' 83 Final Remarks 87 4 Philosophy and Its Revolutions* 92 Philosophy As History 92 Philosophical Revolutions 105 African Philosophy Today 122 PART TWO ANALYSES 129 5 An African Philosopher in Germany in the Eighteenth Century: Anton-Wilhelm Amo* 130 Elements of a History 132 Amo's Problem in De Humanae Mentis Apatheia 137 A Methodical Irony 142 Finite Knowledge 145 6 The End of 'Nkrumaism' and the (re)birth of Nkrumah* 150 The Major Works 150 Nkrumah's Development 152 How to Read Nkrumah's Works 152 The Problem of Violence 154 The Class Struggle 154 African Unity 157 7 The Idea of Philosophy in Nkrumah's Consciencism* 160 The Two Versions of Consciencism 161 The Limits of the Project 166 A Philosophy in the Image of the CPP 16

Author

Hountondji, Paulin J.

Language

EN

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2026-03-14