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The struggle for meaning : reflections on philosophy, culture, and democracy in Africa

The struggle for meaning : reflections on philosophy, culture, and democracy in Africa

Subject Index Culture
Subject Index Democracy
Author HOUNTONDJI, Paulin J.
Publisher Center of International Studies
Date of publication 2002
Place of publication
ISBN 0896802256
Number of pages 308
Language English
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As an object of philosophical discourse, Africa has been constructed, indeed invented according to some, as the other of thought, reason, andd history. Today, Africa itself is the site of origin of plural and open discourses on its ancient traditions of thought, modes of knowledge, and on the inexhaustible meanings of the discipline of philosophy.