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- catalog abstract ""What is the meaning of Africa and being an African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism? These are the kinds of fundamental questions that this book addresses. V.Y. Mudimbe argues that the various discourses themselves establish the worlds of thought in which people conceive their identity. Western anthropology and missionaries have introduced distortions not only for outsiders but also for Africans trying to understand themselves. Mudimbe goes beyond the classic issues of African anthropology or history. He says that the book attempts an archeology of African gnosis as a system of knowledge in which major philosophical questions recently have arisen: first, concerning the form, the content, and the style of Africanizing knowledge; second, concerning the status of traditional systems of thought. He is directly concerned with the processes of transformation of different types of knowledge."--Book cover.".
- catalog contributor b1933313.
- catalog created "c1988.".
- catalog date "1988".
- catalog date "c1988.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1988.".
- catalog description ""What is the meaning of Africa and being an African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism? These are the kinds of fundamental questions that this book addresses. V.Y. Mudimbe argues that the various discourses themselves establish the worlds of thought in which people conceive their identity. Western anthropology and missionaries have introduced distortions not only for outsiders but also for Africans trying to understand themselves. Mudimbe goes beyond the classic issues of African anthropology or history. He says that the book attempts an archeology of African gnosis as a system of knowledge in which major philosophical questions recently have arisen: first, concerning the form, the content, and the style of Africanizing knowledge; second, concerning the status of traditional systems of thought. He is directly concerned with the processes of transformation of different types of knowledge."--Book cover.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 205-232.".
- catalog description "INTRODUCTION --- I. Discourse of power and knowledge of otherness --- II. Questions of method --- III. The Power of speech --- IV. E.W. Blyden's legacy and questions --- V. The Patience of philosophy --- Conclusion: The geography of a discourse.".
- catalog extent "xii, 241 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Invention of Africa.".
- catalog identifier "0253204682 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0253331269".
- catalog isFormatOf "Invention of Africa.".
- catalog isPartOf "African systems of thought".
- catalog issued "1988".
- catalog issued "c1988.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bloomington : Indiana University Press,".
- catalog relation "Invention of Africa.".
- catalog subject "199/.6 19".
- catalog subject "B5310 .M84 1988".
- catalog subject "Knowledge, Theory of.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy, African.".
- catalog tableOfContents "INTRODUCTION --- I. Discourse of power and knowledge of otherness --- II. Questions of method --- III. The Power of speech --- IV. E.W. Blyden's legacy and questions --- V. The Patience of philosophy --- Conclusion: The geography of a discourse.".
- catalog title "The invention of Africa : gnosis, philosophy, and the order of knowledge / V.Y. Mudimbe.".
- catalog type "text".