BOOK REVIEW - The Method and Principles of Complementary Reflection In and Beyond African Philosophy

Abstract

In the following remarks I want to give a critical review of the book The Method and Principles of Complementary Reflection in and beyond African Philosophy, written by Innocent Izuchukwu Asouzu, a Catholic priest and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calabar in the Igbo-region of Nigeria. This book has first been published in July 2004 with Calabar University Press and republished in 2005 as volume 4 of the series ‘Studies in African Philosophy’ with LIT-Verlag at Münster in Germany (ISBN 3-8258- 8578-x). When numbers between brackets are given, they refer to pages of the new edition. In his ‘Comments to the Lit-Verlag edition’ the author reports that the earlier publication had certain shortcomings (‘oversights’ and ‘avoidable errors’), which the new edition ‘endeavours to address’.