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008			910618s1992 nyu b 001 0 eng
010			_a91023386
020			_a0195068513 (acidfree paper)
020			_a9780195068511 (acidfree paper)
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050	0	0	_aDT352.4 _b.A66 1992
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100	1		_aAppiah, Anthony.
245	1	0	_aIn my father's house : _bAfrica in the philosophy of culture / _cKwame Anthony Appiah.
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c1992.
300			_axi, 225 p. ; _c25 cm.
500			_aincludes bibliography,index.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 211-219) and index.
505	0		_aThe invention of Africa -- Illusions of race -- Topologies of nativism -- The myth of an African world -- Ethnophilosophy and its critics -- Old gods, new worlds -- The postcolonial and the postmodern -- Altered states -- African identities.
520	1		_a"Africa's intellectuals have long been engaged in a conversation among themselves and with Europeans and Americans about what it means to be African. 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 situation of these intellectuals, reading their works in the context both of European and American ideas and of Africa's own indigenous traditions." "Appiah draws on his experiences as a Ghanaian in the New World to explore the writings of African and African-American thinkers. In the process, he contributes his own vision of the possibilities and pitfalls of an African identity in the late twentieth century." "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. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
651		0	_aAfrica _xCivilization _xPhilosophy.
651		0	_aAfrica _xIntellectual life _y20th century.
700	1		_aGrossman, Allen R., _d1932-2014, _eformer owner. _5JHE
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aAppiah, Anthony. _tIn my father's house. _dNew York : Oxford University Press, 1992 _w(OCoLC)810356667
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