Tradition and Modernity: Philosophical Reflections on the African ExperienceOxford University Press, 28 ago 1997 - 360 páginas In this important and pioneering book, Kwame Gyekye examines postcolonial African experience from a viewpoint receptive to aspects of both traditional African cultures and Western political and moral theory. African people, in their attempt to evolve ways of life compatible with an increasingly globalized world cultural, intellectual, and political scene, face a number of unique societal challenges, some stemming, Gyekye argues, from traditional African values and practices, others representing the legacy of European colonialism. Enlisting Western political and philosophic concepts to clear, comparative advantage, Gyekye addresses a wide range of concrete problems afflicting postcolonial African states, such as ethnicity and nation- building, the relationship of tradition to modernity, the relationship of the nation-state to community, the nature of political authority and political legitimation, political corruption, and the threat to traditional moral and social values, practices, and institutions in the wake of rapid social change. With striking flexibility and rare insight, Gyekye assesses the value of both traditional and non-African cultural components for the future of African societies and proposes alternative social and political models capable of forging a modernity appropriate for Africa. The resulting book, Tradition and Modernity: Philosophical Reflections on the African Experience, is a brilliant new contribution to postcolonial theory and will be of deep interest to scholars of political and moral philosophy, cultural studies, and African philosophy and politics, and to anyone else concerned with the efforts of non-Western societies to properly modernize. |
Índice
CHAPTER 1 Philosophy and Human Affairs | 3 |
In Defense of Moderate Communitarianism | 35 |
CHAPTER 3 Ethnicity Identity and Nationhood | 77 |
Their Status in the Modern Setting | 115 |
CHAPTER 5 The Socialist Interlude | 144 |
CHAPTER 6 Quandaries in the Legitimation of Political Power | 171 |
A Moral Pollution | 192 |
CHAPTER 8 Tradition and Modernity | 217 |
Which Modernity? Whose Tradition? | 273 |
Notes | 299 |
Bibliography | 317 |
Index of Names | 327 |
330 | |
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Términos y frases comunes
Accra African cultures African Philosophy African political African socialism African society Akan Akan language appropriate Ashanti attitudes basic basis century chapter chief citizens colonial communitarian communocultural concept considered constitute context critical cultural past cultural tradition cultural values democracy democratic economic elements enterprise essentially ethnic group ethnocultural ethos existence experience expression fact fundamental G. E. M. Anscombe Ghana goals historical Hountondji human society Ibid ideas identity ideology imply individual individualist inherited institutions intellectual J. B. Danquah Kenneth Kaunda Kwame Gyekye Kwasi Wiredu language legitimacy legitimate means ment metanational military modern moral responsibility moral revolution multinational N₁ N₂ nation-building nation-state national culture nature normative Oxford person personhood philosophical Plato political corruption political power position postcolonial practice principles problems proverb public officials pursuit reason relevance responsibility rule ruler sense theory thought tion traditional African University Press Western
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