Appiah combines philosophical analysis with more personal reflections, addressing the major issues in the philosophy of culture through an exploration of the contemporary African predicament. Setting out to dismantle the specious oppositions between “us” and “them, ” the West and the Rest, that have governed so much of the cultural debate about Africa in the modern world, Appiah maintains that all of us, wherever we live on the planet, must explore together the relations between our local cultures and an increasingly global civilization. In the process, he contributes his own vision of the possibilities and pitfalls of an African identity in the late twentieth century. Appiah draws on his experiences as a Ghanaian in the New World to explore the writings of African and African-American thinkers.
In this book, Appiah asks how we should think about the cultural situation of these intellectuals, reading their works in the context both of European and American ideas and of Africa’s own indigenous traditions. At the heart of these debates on African identity are the seminal works of politicians, creative writers, and philosophers from Africa and its diaspora. In this book, Appiah asks how we should think about the cultural situatio Africa’s intellectuals have long been engaged in a conversation among themselves and with Europeans and Americans about what it means to be African. You can read this before In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture PDF full Download at the bottom.Īfrica’s intellectuals have long been engaged in a conversation among themselves and with Europeans and Americans about what it means to be African. Here is a quick description and cover image of book In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture written by Kwame Anthony Appiah which was published in 1993.
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