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Sur La Philosophie Africaine. Critique de Liethnophilosophie (French, Paperback)
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Sur La Philosophie Africaine. Critique de Liethnophilosophie (French, Paperback)
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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 Pere 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 Kagame, 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
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