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- Sur la philosophie africaine: Critique de l�ethnophilosophie
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: LANGAA RPCIG
summary
Many contemporary African writers remain trapped in the quest for a worldview, philosophy, supposing a single �African� demesne to explain the entire continent, referring to a mythical past. Paulin Hountondji shows how these strange conceptual constructions have played a positive role in the resistance led by intellectuals of colonial rule: they responded to the negation of the oppression that it comprised of, but it was an ambiguous answer, especially because it was built on the principles derived from the works of European ethnologists, particularly the P�re Tempels. Independence opened a new historical period; these philosophical elaborations changed direction: once an expression of anti-colonial resistance, they are nowadays an ideology that justifies and reinforces the dominance of the contemporary state; the intellectuals who create them are today only the �griots� of the regimes in place. Analysing without complacency the work of Nkrumah, of the Cameroonian Towa, and of the Rwandan Kagam�, amongst others, Hountondji exposes and denounces this antagonism. To him, the critical project proposed in this book seems a necessary step on the way to �the liberation of theoretical creativity,� the peoples of Africa and their full participation in the universal intellectual debate!
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-5
- Table de Matières
- pp. iii-7
- I. Arguments
- pp. 1-9
- 1. Une littérature aliénée
- pp. 3-27
- 2. Histoire d’un mythe
- pp. 29-39
- 3. L’idée de philosophie
- pp. 41-66
- 4. La philosophie et ses révolutions
- pp. 67-120
- II. Analyses
- pp. 121-129
- 8. Vrai et faux pluralisme
- pp. 197-215
- III. Post-scriptum
- pp. 217-236
- Back Cover
- p. 246
Additional Information
ISBN
9789956791606
Related ISBN(s)
9789956790326
MARC Record
OCLC
857276776
Pages
244
Launched on MUSE
2013-11-15
Language
French
Open Access
No