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The Struggle for Meaning: Reflections on Philosophy, Culture, and Democracy in Africa

Catégorie: Etudes supérieures, Livres pour enfants
Auteur: Gabrielle Bernstein
Éditeur: Susan Briscoe
Publié: 2018-08-17
Écrivain: Stjepan Sejic
Langue: Anglais, Cornique, Turc
Format: epub, Livre audio

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Reflections on paradigms of philosophizing. - Free Online ... - Once adopted in philosophy, the struggle to clarify the intellectual act was, at the same time, opening a way to universal intersubjectivity, a route to the seductive heights of transcendence, and established a real anonymity of thought, established reason, as it were, for which any `personal empirical sphere' dissolves under the pressure of the intellect bound for universality: it is the `purest' antipode of the `pure I' in the name of which `the reasoned individual' can only be ...

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The Struggle for Meaning: Reflections on Philosophy ... - The Struggle for Meaning is a landmark publication by one of African philosophy's leading figures, Paulin J. Hountondji, best known for his critique of ethnophilosophy in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In this volume, he responds with autobiographical and philosophical reflection to the dialogue and controversy he has provoked. He discusses the ideas, rooted in the work of such thinkers as ...

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Composing a Life: Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson on ... - Our aesthetic sense, whether in works of art or in lives, has overfocused on the stubborn struggle toward a single goal rather than on the fluid, the protean, the improvisatory. We see achievement as purposeful and monolithic, like the sculpting of a massive tree trunk that has first to be brought from the forest and then shaped by long labor to assert the artist's vision, rather than ...

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