Author: Niamkey Koffi
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2140098242
Category : Philosophy
Languages : fr
Pages : 218
Book Description
Cet ouvrage est un ensemble de textes qui portent sur la problématique de l'existence de la philosophie africaine depuis les années 1970. L'un des arguments essentiels dans le refus de considérer les pensées africaines précoloniales comme philosophie trouve son émergence dans l'espace circonscrit par la distinction entre philosophie "classique" et philosophie dite populaire. Si l'émergence d'un tel débat est contemporaine de la lutte politique pour une indépendance véritable du continent africain, l'enjeu reste éminemment politique.
Controverses sur la philosophie africaine
Author: Niamkey Koffi
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2140098242
Category : Philosophy
Languages : fr
Pages : 218
Book Description
Cet ouvrage est un ensemble de textes qui portent sur la problématique de l'existence de la philosophie africaine depuis les années 1970. L'un des arguments essentiels dans le refus de considérer les pensées africaines précoloniales comme philosophie trouve son émergence dans l'espace circonscrit par la distinction entre philosophie "classique" et philosophie dite populaire. Si l'émergence d'un tel débat est contemporaine de la lutte politique pour une indépendance véritable du continent africain, l'enjeu reste éminemment politique.
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2140098242
Category : Philosophy
Languages : fr
Pages : 218
Book Description
Cet ouvrage est un ensemble de textes qui portent sur la problématique de l'existence de la philosophie africaine depuis les années 1970. L'un des arguments essentiels dans le refus de considérer les pensées africaines précoloniales comme philosophie trouve son émergence dans l'espace circonscrit par la distinction entre philosophie "classique" et philosophie dite populaire. Si l'émergence d'un tel débat est contemporaine de la lutte politique pour une indépendance véritable du continent africain, l'enjeu reste éminemment politique.
Controverses sur la philosophie africaine
Author: Koffi Niamkey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy, African
Languages : fr
Pages : 171
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy, African
Languages : fr
Pages : 171
Book Description
Phenomenology in an African Context
Author: Abraham Olivier
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438494882
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
African phenomenology is an emerging subfield within the broader domain of African and Africana philosophy. The phenomenological method, with its various approaches to studying the seminal structures and meaning of human experience, has been a cornerstone in the thought of African philosophers such as Paulin Hountondji, Tsenay Serequeberhan, Achille Mbembe, D. A. Masolo, and Mabogo More, as well as proponents of Africana philosophy such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Lucius Outlaw, and Lewis Gordon. Technically, however, the term "African phenomenology" is not used as widely, or introduced as systematically, as Africana phenomenology. This anthology aims to fill this gap by exploring contributions and challenges to phenomenology in its African context and demonstrating the differences this context makes to the practice of phenomenology. Written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field—including Hountondji, Serequeberhan, Mbembe, More, Gordon, and M. John Lamola—the sixteen original essays here address the relation of African phenomenology to African/Africana philosophy, postcolonial/decolonial discourse, and deliberations within the international phenomenological community.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438494882
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
African phenomenology is an emerging subfield within the broader domain of African and Africana philosophy. The phenomenological method, with its various approaches to studying the seminal structures and meaning of human experience, has been a cornerstone in the thought of African philosophers such as Paulin Hountondji, Tsenay Serequeberhan, Achille Mbembe, D. A. Masolo, and Mabogo More, as well as proponents of Africana philosophy such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Lucius Outlaw, and Lewis Gordon. Technically, however, the term "African phenomenology" is not used as widely, or introduced as systematically, as Africana phenomenology. This anthology aims to fill this gap by exploring contributions and challenges to phenomenology in its African context and demonstrating the differences this context makes to the practice of phenomenology. Written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field—including Hountondji, Serequeberhan, Mbembe, More, Gordon, and M. John Lamola—the sixteen original essays here address the relation of African phenomenology to African/Africana philosophy, postcolonial/decolonial discourse, and deliberations within the international phenomenological community.
African Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century
Author: Jean Godefroy Bidima
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 153815417X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
In Africa, the twenty-first century began with new challenges surrounding and regarding philosophical discourses. Questions of economic and political liberation, the displacement of populations and the process of urbanization present ongoing challenges, linked to problems such as endemic diseases and famine, the restructure of the traditional family, gender and the position of women, the transmission of culture from past to future generations. Changes in labor relations resulting from introduction of financial speculation, cutting edge technologies, and differential access to digital and older cultural forms have placed real demands on Africans and Africanists working in philosophy. This volume explores the ways in which African philosophies express “transitional acts,” those acts by which thought interacts with history as it is being made and by which it assures its own renewal in proposing provisional solutions to historical problems. A transitional act combines both the audacity of confrontation and the novelty of creation, prudence in the face of risks and anticipation in the face of the unexpected. Influential and emerging thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic consider this dual activity in the realm of criticism and imagination, public spaces in Africa, and the relationship between historical politics and historical poetics.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 153815417X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
In Africa, the twenty-first century began with new challenges surrounding and regarding philosophical discourses. Questions of economic and political liberation, the displacement of populations and the process of urbanization present ongoing challenges, linked to problems such as endemic diseases and famine, the restructure of the traditional family, gender and the position of women, the transmission of culture from past to future generations. Changes in labor relations resulting from introduction of financial speculation, cutting edge technologies, and differential access to digital and older cultural forms have placed real demands on Africans and Africanists working in philosophy. This volume explores the ways in which African philosophies express “transitional acts,” those acts by which thought interacts with history as it is being made and by which it assures its own renewal in proposing provisional solutions to historical problems. A transitional act combines both the audacity of confrontation and the novelty of creation, prudence in the face of risks and anticipation in the face of the unexpected. Influential and emerging thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic consider this dual activity in the realm of criticism and imagination, public spaces in Africa, and the relationship between historical politics and historical poetics.
Plotinus and African Concepts of Evil
Author: Christian Mofor
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039112531
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This book explores the concepts of evil in the world-views of Plotinus and the Nso' people of Cameroon. The author analyzes the theories of the natural structure and social organization of these views of the world. He stresses the importance of comparing Plotinus and African philosophy. The book offers a proper appreciation of fundamental differences, parallels and similarities and seeks to build on shared values and common existential concerns in the world-views of Plotinus and the Nso'. This book highlights the assumption that the world understood in terms of its wider dimensions is not a purposeless conglomerate of phenomena and events that bear no relation to each other, but is rather a structured whole, defined by hierarchy and order.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039112531
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This book explores the concepts of evil in the world-views of Plotinus and the Nso' people of Cameroon. The author analyzes the theories of the natural structure and social organization of these views of the world. He stresses the importance of comparing Plotinus and African philosophy. The book offers a proper appreciation of fundamental differences, parallels and similarities and seeks to build on shared values and common existential concerns in the world-views of Plotinus and the Nso'. This book highlights the assumption that the world understood in terms of its wider dimensions is not a purposeless conglomerate of phenomena and events that bear no relation to each other, but is rather a structured whole, defined by hierarchy and order.
African Philosophy in Search of Identity
Author: D A Masolo
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474470777
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
African Philosophy in Search of Identity
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474470777
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
African Philosophy in Search of Identity
Actes Du Séminaire Sur la Philosophie Africaine, Addis Abéba, 1-3 Décembre 1976
Author: Claude Sumner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy, African
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy, African
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Philosophie africaine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy, African
Languages : fr
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy, African
Languages : fr
Pages : 260
Book Description
Living Springs of Wisdom and Philosophy: Problematics of an African philosophy
Author: Claude Sumner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy, African
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy, African
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Africa's Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization
Author: Messay Kebede
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042008106
Category : Decolonization
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, freedom escapes the drawbacks of otherness, as defended by ethnophilosophy, while exposing the idiosyncratic inspiration of Eurocentric universalism. Decolonization calls for the reconnection with freedom, that is, with myth-making understood as the inaugural act of cultural pluralism. The cultural condition of modernization emerges when the return to the past deploys the future.
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042008106
Category : Decolonization
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, freedom escapes the drawbacks of otherness, as defended by ethnophilosophy, while exposing the idiosyncratic inspiration of Eurocentric universalism. Decolonization calls for the reconnection with freedom, that is, with myth-making understood as the inaugural act of cultural pluralism. The cultural condition of modernization emerges when the return to the past deploys the future.