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- catalog abstract ""Africa's intellectuals have long been engaged in a conversation among themselves and with Europeans and Americans about what it means to be African. At the heart of these debates on African identity are the seminal works of politicians, creative writers, and philosophers from Africa and its diaspora. In this book, Appiah asks how we should think about the cultural situation of these intellectuals, reading their works in the context both of European and American ideas and of Africa's own indigenous traditions." "Appiah draws on his experiences as a Ghanaian in the New World to explore the writings of African and African-American thinkers. In the process, he contributes his own vision of the possibilities and pitfalls of an African identity in the late twentieth century." "Setting out to dismantle the specious oppositions between "us" and "them," the West and the Rest, that have governed so much of the cultural debate about Africa in the modern world, Appiah maintains that all of us, wherever we live on the planet, must explore together the relations between our local cultures and an increasingly global civilization. Appiah combines philosophical analysis with more personal reflections, addressing the major issues in the philosophy of culture through an exploration of the contemporary African predicament."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b3716270.
- catalog coverage "Africa Civilization Philosophy.".
- catalog coverage "Africa Culture Philosophy.".
- catalog coverage "Africa Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description ""Africa's intellectuals have long been engaged in a conversation among themselves and with Europeans and Americans about what it means to be African. At the heart of these debates on African identity are the seminal works of politicians, creative writers, and philosophers from Africa and its diaspora. In this book, Appiah asks how we should think about the cultural situation of these intellectuals, reading their works in the context both of European and American ideas and of Africa's own indigenous traditions." "Appiah draws on his experiences as a Ghanaian in the New World to explore the writings of African and African-American thinkers. In the process, he contributes his own vision of the possibilities and pitfalls of an African identity in the late twentieth century." "Setting out to dismantle the specious oppositions between "us" and "them," the West and the Rest, that have governed so much of the cultural debate about Africa in the modern world, Appiah maintains that all of us, wherever we live on the planet, must explore together the relations between our local cultures and an increasingly global civilization. Appiah combines philosophical analysis with more personal reflections, addressing the major issues in the philosophy of culture through an exploration of the contemporary African predicament."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-219) and index.".
- catalog description "The invention of Africa -- Illusions of race -- Topologies of nativism -- The myth of an African world -- Ethnophilosophy and its critics -- Old gods, new worlds -- The postcolonial and the postmodern -- Altered states -- African identities.".
- catalog extent "xi, 225 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "In my father's house.".
- catalog identifier "0195068513 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "0195068521 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "In my father's house.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "In my father's house.".
- catalog spatial "Africa Civilization Philosophy.".
- catalog spatial "Africa Culture Philosophy.".
- catalog spatial "Africa Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog subject "960 20".
- catalog subject "DT352.4 .A66 1992".
- catalog tableOfContents "The invention of Africa -- Illusions of race -- Topologies of nativism -- The myth of an African world -- Ethnophilosophy and its critics -- Old gods, new worlds -- The postcolonial and the postmodern -- Altered states -- African identities.".
- catalog title "In my father's house : Africa in the philosophy of culture / Kwame Anthony Appiah.".
- catalog type "text".