Self and Community in a Changing World

D. A. Masolo is Professor of Philosophy and Justus Bier Professor of Humanities at the University of Louisville. He is author of African Philosophy in Search of Identity (IUP, 1994) and editor (with Ivan Karp) of African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry (IUP, 2000).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Philosophy and Indigenous Knowledge2. Philosophy and the Orders of Consciousness3. Revaluation of Values and the Demand for Liberties4. Understanding Personhood: An African Philosophical Anthropology5. Juok as the Moral Foundation of Personhood6. Two Forms of Communitarianism: A ComparisonIn Lieu of a Conclusion: A Village Symposium on ExperienceNotesReferencesIndex

"D. A. Masolo is one of the leading African philosophers and nobody who has studied his African Philosophy in Search of Identity can fail to be excited when they pick up this new book."—Robert Bernasconi, Penn State University"Inspiring not only to those who are directly related to the African discussion, but also to any thinker who asks how in the world we can coexist with that which makes us singular and that which we share with the other."—Jean-Godefroy Bidima, Tulane University