African Metaphysics or African Existentialism?: Some Critical Remarks on Aribiah David Attoe’s “Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics”

Authors

Björn Freter, Gettysburg CollegeFollow

Document Type

Review

Publication Date

1-18-2023

Department 1

Philosophy

Abstract

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. [excerpt]

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DOI

10.4314/ajct.v2i2.3

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Recommended Citation

Freter, Björn. “African Metaphysics or African Existentialism?: Some Critical Remarks on Aribiah David Attoe’s ‘Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics.’” Arụmarụka: Journal of Conversational Thinking 2, no. 2 (January 18, 2023): 34–40. https://doi.org/10.4314/ajct.v2i2.3.

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