在我父亲的屋子里：文化哲学中的非洲

简介

Appiah, then teaching at Harvard, published these essays in 1992; several had appeared earlier in journals. The opening chapters trace how nineteenth-century Pan-Africanists such as Alexander Crummell, and later Du Bois, built the unity of Africa on the idea of race. Developing his 1985 essay “The Uncompleted Argument”, Appiah argues that Du Bois’s sociohistorical concept of race still depends on the biological one it was meant to replace: “The truth is that there are no races.” Further chapters criticise ethnophilosophy and literary nativism, ask whether the “post” in postmodernism is the “post” in postcolonial, and describe African identities as historically made rather than given. The epilogue tells of the dispute over the funeral of his father, Joe Appiah, in Kumasi in 1990 between his family and his father’s matrilineal clan.

联系

承接了

• 非洲哲学：神话与现实1976 · 保兰·洪通吉

批评了

• 班图哲学1945 · 普拉希德·坦普尔斯

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