Lexington Book, 2023. — 289 p. — African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue. — ISBN 978-1793630797. Well-Being in African Philosophy: Insights for a Global Ethics of Development explores the notion of well-being in African and intercultural philosophy and its insights into global ethics of development. Drawing from longstanding debates on communitarianism in...
Routledge, 2003. — 813 p. — ISBN 978-0415968096. Divided into eight sections, each with introductory essays, the selections offer rich and detailed insights into a diverse multinational philosophical landscape. Revealed in this pathbreaking work is the way in which traditional philosophical issues related to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology, for instance, take on specific...
Lexington Books, 2022. — 181 p. — African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue. — ISBN 978-1498599436. Partiality and Impartiality in African Philosophy fills the lacuna in African philosophy literature on the inherent tension between requirements of partiality (favoritism) and impartiality (equality). Motsamai Molefe deploys two strategies to philosophically...
Editions L'Harmattan, 2009. — 254 p. — ISBN 978-2296079069. Cet ouvrage est un parfait condensé de la philosophie africaine, d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, du Nord au Sud et de l'Est à l'Ouest du continent. En commençant la présentation de la philosophie africaine par la pensée de l'Egypte pharaonique, ce traité laisse clairement voir que l'ontologie des modernes (Heidegger ou...
Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2018. — XVII, 169 p., 17 b/w ill. — Philosophical Studies Series. — ISBN 978-3030019617. This book offers a new way of doing African philosophy by building on an analysis of the way people talk. The author bases his investigation on the belief that traditional African philosophy is hidden in expressions used in ordinary language. As a result, he...
Lexington Books, 2019. — 134 p. — African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue. — ISBN 978-1498581899. Derrida and Africa takes up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, with a focus on Derrida’s writings specifically on Africa, which were influenced in part by his childhood in El Biar. From chapters that take up Derrida as Mother to...
Routledge, 2014. — 172 p. — ISBN 978-1138652101. Much of the literature on the African philosophy of education juxtaposes two philosophical strands as mutually exclusive entities; traditional ethnophilosophy on the one hand, and ‘scientific’ African philosophy on the other. While traditional ethnophilosophy is associated with the cultural artefacts, narratives, folklore and...
Paragon House, 1991. — 276 p. — ISBN 1557783098. The eleven papers in this anthology, all by Africans, represent a variety of philosophical positions that are central to the debate in and on African philosophy as it has developed thus far. An introduction essay explores the historical, political, and existential context of the debate, and is followed by a presentation of the...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 208 p. — ISBN 019511440X. In the last two decades the idea of African Philosophy has undergone significant change and scrutiny. Some critics have maintained that the idea of a system of philosophical thought tied to African traditions is incoherent. In African Philosophy Lee Brown has collected new essays by top scholars in the field that in...
Indiana University Press, 1996. — 248 p. — African Systems of Thought. — ISBN 978-0253210968. "Hountondji... writes not as an 'African' philosopher but as a philosopher on Africa... Hountondji's deep understanding of any civilization as necessarily pluralistic, and often even self-contradicting as it evolves, is simply magisterial... This is a precious gem of a book for anyone...
Lexington Books, 2017. — 120 p. — African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue — ISBN 978-1498512251. Many have argued that Ubuntu was a formative influence on the post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), South Africa’s famous transitional justice mechanism. A Discourse on African Philosophy: A New Perspective on Ubuntu and Transitional Justice...
Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. — 316 p. — (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina 3). In Greek Late Antiquity philosophy defined itself above all through the interpretation of authoritative texts such as Plato’s dialogues or the treatises of Aristotle. This work looks at the last Late Antique commentaries on Aristotle’s Physics, the pagan Simplicius and the...
Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2020. — 534 p. — (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina – Series academica 1). This study contains the first collection of preserved fragments, in Greek and Arabic, of the peripatetic philosopher Boethus of Sidon (first century BC) along with their French translation and an exhaustive commentary. This book is an indispensable work for...
Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2024. — 114 p. — (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina – Series academica 10). This book presents newly discovered fragments from the lost ancient commentaries by Aspasios, Herminos, Alexander and Syrianos on Aristotle’s Sophistical Refutations. After presenting the fragments, which were preserved by the humanist and philosopher...
Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2023. — 246 p. — (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina – Series academica 9). Neoplatonists from Plotinus onward incorporate Aristotle’s logic and ontology into their philosophies: this process is of both intrinsic and historical interest and paves the way for subsequent philosophical debates in the Middle Ages and beyond. The ten...
Agiotis Nikos (ed.). — De Gruyter, 2021. — 300 p. — (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina – Series academica 5). This study contributes substantially to research on Aristotelian logic in Byzantium. It includes a critical edition of the commentary by Leo Magentenos, the Metropolitan of Mytilene (twelfth c.?) on Book II of the Prior Analytics along with an edition of...
Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 248 p. — (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina – Series academica 6). The Epitome physica by Nikephoros Blemmydes (1197 – after 1269) was one of the most widely disseminated textbooks of Aristotelian natural philosophy in the Byzantine and post-Byzantine worlds. This volume provides a manuscriptological, stemmatological and...
Xenophontos Sophia, Addey Crystal (eds.). — Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 386 p. — (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina – Series academica 7). The Greek commentary tradition devoted to explicating Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (NE) was extensive. It began in antiquity with Aspasius and reached a point of immense sophistication in the twelfth century with...
Bydén Börje (ed.). — Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 570 p. — (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina – Series academica 8). Theodore Metochites’ Aristotelian paraphrases (c. 1312), covering all 40 books of the Stagirite’s extant works on natural philosophy, constitute one of the major achievements of late Byzantine learning. This volume offers the first...
Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020. — XIV, 552 p., 4 b/w ill., 3 ill. in colour — Handbooks in Philosophy series — ISBN 978-3030148348. This handbook explores essential philosophical questions about the experience of difference and the other in African societies. The contributions go beyond a mere discussion of empirical manifestations. They offer a critical analysis of,...
Palgrave Macmillan New York, 2017. — XXIX, 867 p., 5 b/w ill. — ISBN 978-1137592903. This handbook investigates the current state and future possibilities of African Philosophy, as a discipline and as a practice, vis-à-vis the challenge of African development and Africa’s place in a globalized, neoliberal capitalist economy. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — xxi, 633 p. — Oxford handbooks in philosophy series — ISBN 978-0195328998. The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy provides the advanced student or scholar a set of introductions to each of the world's major non-European philosophical traditions. It offers the non-specialist a way in to unfamiliar philosophical texts and methods and the...
Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2022. — X, 1290 p., 10 b/w ill., 10 ill. in colour. — ISBN 978-3030426811. Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys and speculates on the...
М.: Академический Проект, 2020. — 880 с. — (Концепции). — ISBN 978-5-8291-3222-4. Автор рассматривает вопросы истории философии в контексте развития национальной культуры. Он стремится показать своеобразие русской философской школы, исторически проявлявшееся в различных культурных формах, философских течениях и направлениях. Для автора было особенно важно показать своеобразие...
Springer Cham, 2023. — XX, 880 p. — (Handbooks in Philosophy). — ISBN 978-3030778989. This Handbook provides in one volume rich, comprehensive and rigorous coverage of specific subject areas and thematic concerns in the ever-evolving academic discipline of African philosophy. This Handbook is unique in its focus on central and emerging areas within African philosophy such as...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. — 392 p. — Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy series — ISBN: 978-1472580320. The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Methodologies presents a new understanding of the changing methods used to study Chinese philosophy. By identifying the various different approaches and discussing the role, and significance of...
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981. 141 p. Early work from a leader in analytic philosophy From Parmenides to Wittgenstein, Volume 1: Collected Philosophical Papers is part of a multi-volume publication of G.E.M. Anscombe's collected works. Writing on philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, philosophy of language, and philosophical logic, Anscombe is known as one of analytical...