Table of Contents

Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. Preface. 1. Categories of Cross-Cultural Cognition and the African Condition 2. Using Culture in African Contexts 3. Understanding Trends in "African Thinking" - A Critical Discussion 4. Metaphysical Thinking in Africa 5. African Epistemology 6. Particularity in Morality and its Relation to Community 7. The Problem of Political Self-Definition in South Africa: Marxism and Pluralism 8. Using and Abusing African Art 9. African and European Philosophising: Senghor's "Civilization of the Universal" Glossary. Index.