| Our Heritage: The Past in the Present of African-American and African Existence Contributor(s): Serequeberhan, Tsenay (Author) |
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ISBN: 0847689212 ISBN-13: 9780847689217 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2000 Annotation: In this compelling and engaging work, Tsenay Serequeberhan discusses recent themes in African-American and African Philosophy from a hermeneutical perspective, while paying special attention to the question of how we relate to our past (i.e. our hertiage) and the open possibilities of our future. Our Heritage carefully examines the variety of approaches to African philosophy and argues for a historically engaged and existentially attuned paradigm shift. The result is an approach that explores the contemporary situation of African and African-American existence in view of emancipatory struggles that have established the confines of the present. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 973.049 |
| LCCN: 99048901 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.85" W x 8.96" (0.48 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this compelling and engaging work, Tsenay Serequeberhan discusses recent attempts to define African philosophy and the practice of hermeneutics for articulating a philosophy that is distinctively African. Pressing into service insights derived from Marx, Nietzsche, Levinas, Fanon, and others, Serequeberhan analyzes the question of how we relate to our past (i.e., our heritage) and the open possibilities of our future. He carefully examines the variety of approaches to African philosophy and argues for a historically engaged and existentially attuned paradigm shift. The result is an approach that explores the contemporary situation of African and African-American existence in view of emancipatory struggles that have established the confines of the present. |