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Tradition and modernity : philosophical reflections on the African experience
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- Creator
- Kwame Gyekye
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1997
- Physical Details
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- xix, 338 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780195112252, 0195112253, 9780195112269, 0195112261
- OCLC
- ocm34912648
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-325) and indexes.
- Philosophy and human affairs -- Person and community : in defense of moderate communitarianism -- Ethnicity, identity, and nationhood -- Traditional political ideas, values, and practices : their status in the modern setting -- The socialist interlude -- Quandaries in the legitimation of political power -- Political corruption : a moral pollution -- Tradition and modernity -- Epilogue : which modernity? whose tradition?