African Philosophy, Second Edition: Myth and Reality

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Index Abraham, William, 44, 59, 115, 117 acculturation, 164-5, 166 Adotevi, Stanislas Spero, 24, 65 African philosophy: as ethnophilosophy, 38,52-3, 75-6; as Europe directed, 45, 48,50,67; bibliography, 185n; definition, 8,33,62-6, 101, 103, 105, 176; French speaking versus English speaking, 29; inseparable from science, 98, 106; myth of, 44, 51, 56; writing and, 106 African unity, problem of in Nkrumah, 138 Africanization, 167-8 Althusser, Louis, 28,91,94-5,97, 202-3n, 214n Amo, Anton-Wilhelm, 66, 111-30 Aristotle, 39,41,88, 119, 189n Ayer,A.J., 30 Bachelard, Gaston, 76, 78, 90, 96, 100 Bantu philosophy, 16-17,34-44 passim, 49; see also Tempels Bodunrin, Peter, 11,29 Cesaire, Aime, 37,57,158-9,162, 168, 216n; see also negritude class struggle see Nkrumah colonialism, 17, 134, 135, 143, 150, 163 consciencism, 134, 142-55, 182; see also Nkrumah critical reflection, 104-6 cultural relativity, 177; in anthropology, 14, 163; in philosophy, 20 culturalism, 160, 162-4 Derrida, Jacques, 102-3, 149 Descartes, Rene, 30, 89, 90, 126, 153 Dieterlen, Germaine, 15,58 Diop, Cheik Anta, 21-3, 100 Eboussi-Boulaga, Fabien, 45,57, 65, 105, 173, 190n Elwert, Georg, 179 Engels, Friedrich, 91-5, 180 ethnology, 61, 148, 163, 165, 173, 187n; complicity with nationalism, 160, 164 ethnophilosophy, 42,45,48, 61, 178; critique of, 21,25, 27,53,57,62,79,171-2,176, 182; definition, 34; examples, 58-9 European ethnocentrism, 11, 12, 156; break with, 17,22 Fanon, Frantz, 23-4 Fitch, Bob, 181 Gandhi, Mahatma, 135, 146 Godel, Kurt, 75 Griaule, Marcel, 15,58,77,78,81 220 Index Hegel, G. W. F., 11,73,74,90, 93,94,96,97 Herskovits, Melville, 14, 159 history, 71-2,84, 94-7; Marxist, 96; of philosophy, 86-97 Hountondji, Paulin, 25, 26; criticism of, 27-30 Hume, David, 86-7, 126 Husserl, Edmund, 75, 84, 89 ideology, 92, 148-9, 175; colonial, 11, 14, 17, 24, 37; practical, 177--8 Ikoku, Samuel, 133, 141 imperialism, 135, 164, 172, 181 Kagame, Alexis, 20, 39-43, 48, 58,62, 188n; relation to TempeIs, 39-42,51 Kant, Immanuel, 62, 65, 84-90, 128, 153 Leclerc, Gerald, 17,164-5 Lenin, V. I., 142,180 Levi-Strauss, Claude, 15, 104, 156, 157 Levy-Bruhl, Lucien, 18, 34, 43, 77,80,156,157,163; ethnocentrism of, 12-15 Locke, John, 88 Malinowski, Bronislaw, 157, 159 Marx, Karl, 52,84, 91-{), 136, 148, 149, 156, 180, 183 Marxism, 69, 92-3, 141, 179, 181, 183 materialism, 152-3, 176 Mulago, Vincent, 44, 48, 58 negritude, 18-19,20,24,59,65, 128,158,162, 172, 194n, 215n;see also Cesaire, Senghor Nkrumah, Kwame, 59, 64, 112, 131-40, 141-55 passim, 167, 174, 179-89; class struggle in, 135-8, 143, 147, 150, 152; communalism, 136, 144-5; consciencism, 134, 142-55, 182; historical reading of, 133, 141; life, 207n; philosophy and ideology in, 147-9; socialism of, 133, 134, 136, 144-5, 153; system of, 134-9; violence in, 135, 137 Nkrumaism, 133-40, 179; rightish nature of, 133, 141, 180 Nyerere, Julius, 137 Obenga, Theophile, 100 Odera, HenryOruka, 65,105 Ogotemmeli, 77--8,81, 83;seealso Griaule Oppenheimer, Mary, 181 philosophical revolutions, 84-90; and scientific revolutions, 98-100 philosophy, 7-8, 106, 171, 191n; as history, 71-3,83-4; as politics, 26, 174-5; collective, 38,39,43,44,~5,6O, 76, 77,103, 149; definition, 47,60,66, 174-5; distinguished from poetry, 82-3; in Nkrumah, 148-9 Plato, 7, 52, 72, 73, 88, 198-9n pluralism, 18, 149, 151, 155, 156, 1~, 168 politics, 26,33,46, 167, 174, 183 primitive mentality, 12-13, 77; attack on, 15,34; positive sense of, 19; see also Levy-Bruhl primitive unanimity, 60-1, 154, 165, 170, 176 Radin, Paul, 76, 79--81 Ricoeur, Paul, 189n science, 54,67, 73, 97, 155, 172; philosophy as, 47, 67, 175 scientific revolutions, 98-100 Senghor, Leopold Sedar, 18-19, 23, 59, 137, 159-60; critics, 21, 24; see also negritude socialism, 133, 134, 136, 144--5, 153; see also Nkrumah Socrates, 106, 198n Spencer, Herbert, 12 Spinoza, 73, 74 system, 71-5; in Nkrumah, 134-9 Tempels, Placide, 15-17,19,20, 34-7,48-9,56-7,62,76,77,105, 173; criticism by Cesaire, 37; relation to Kagame, 39-42,51 Index 221...