Philosophy in an African Place

Clear and systematic, empathetic and well thought out, this is, without doubt, one of the best introductions to a contemporary African practice of Philosophy. -- V. Y. Mudimbe Janz urges a questioning of traditional philosophical questions about reason, culture, ethics, and language in an effort to reposition philosophy-and African philosophy in particular-without he limits assumed by current philosophical practice...This is an ambitious and potentially significant work...Recommended. -- C.D. Kay CHOICE, June 2010 For at least half a century the question of what constitutes African Philosophy has provoked some of the most profound reflections on the nature of philosophy in general. Bruce B. Janz makes a major contribution to that debate. This book deserves to be widely read by philosophers and non-philosophers alike, and can be profitably studied even by those who to their shame have not yet given the question of African philosophy a second thought. -- Robert Bernasconi, Pennsylvania State University