The Genres of Swahili Philosophy

IF 0.3 4区哲学 0 LITERATURE

PHILOSOPHY AND RHETORIC Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.5325/philrhet.56.1.0008

Alena Rettová

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Abstract

abstract:This article maintains that African philosophy should consider those discourses that function as channels of important ideas in African cultures, without prejudice against their language and, especially, their genre. What are such philosophical discourses? This article starts from a case study, Swahili culture, and interrogates the communicative resources available to it to serve as vehicles of philosophical thought. The survey includes language itself, proverbs, musical performance (sung lyrics), metric and free-verse poetry, novelistic prose, theoretical writings, and translations. Based on this spectrum of genres, the article ventures some general observations about the relationship of African philosophy to language and genre.

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斯瓦希里哲学流派

摘要：本文认为，非洲哲学应该考虑那些在非洲文化中充当重要思想渠道的话语，而不应损害其语言，尤其是其流派。什么是哲学话语？本文从一个案例研究，斯瓦希里文化开始，并询问可作为哲学思想载体的交流资源。调查内容包括语言本身、谚语、音乐表演（歌词）、韵律诗和自由诗、小说散文、理论著作和翻译。基于这一系列流派，本文对非洲哲学与语言和流派的关系进行了一些一般性的观察。

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0.70

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期刊介绍： Philosophy and Rhetoric is dedicated to publication of high-quality articles involving the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric. It has a longstanding commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship and welcomes all theoretical and methodological perspectives that advance the journal"s mission. Philosophy and Rhetoric invites articles on such topics as the relationship between logic and rhetoric, the philosophical aspects of argumentation, philosophical views on the nature of rhetoric held by historical figures and during historical periods, psychological and sociological studies of rhetoric with a strong philosophical emphasis, and philosophical analyses of the relationship to rhetoric of other areas of human culture and thought, political theory and law.