African Metaphysics or African Existentialism?: Some Critical Remarks on Aribiah David Attoe’s “Groundwork For A New Kind Of African Metaphysics”
Aribiah David Attoe’s Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics is a bold, courageous, passionate, and controversial book. It is erudite, well-informed, well-written, and at times even poetic. It combines the scholarship of Western and African philosophers in elegantly yet naturally flowing l...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Conversational Society of Philosophy (CSP)
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Arụmarụka |
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ajct.v2i2.3 |
| Summary: | Aribiah David Attoe’s Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics is a bold, courageous, passionate, and controversial book. It is erudite, well-informed, well-written, and at times even poetic. It combines the scholarship of Western and African philosophers in elegantly yet naturally flowing language. The book is bold because it aspires, as the title states, to be a groundwork for a new (African) metaphysics, thus claiming to solve those problems which previous metaphysicians of both African and Western origin have been unable to resolve. This is where the book becomes somewhat controversial, which is hardly a surprise. |
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| ISSN: | 2788-7928 |