Africa

Craig Clark CLARK at SHEPFS2.UND.AC.ZA
Tue Nov 19 09:33:29 CST 1996


Don Larsson wrote:

> You definitely have a point.  Anthony Appiah was on campus last year and
> provided an interesting take on these subjects.  "Africa" to Appiah is
> a simulacrum--a model with no "real" referent.  It might be a *necessary*
> simulacrum for some, but that doesn't make it any more real.

My significant other has just written an exam on African philosophy: 
Appiah's _My Father's House_ was a prescribed text for the course. 
>From what She told me about what Appiah has to say, it sounds like an 
interesting read.

 
Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"



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