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For many students of philosophy in the West, philosophy is understood as a discipline stemming from Ancient Greece, embracing the great thinkers of medieval and early modern Europe and continuing through to the present day. To the extent that other philosophical traditions are taken into account, these tend to be selected philosophical traditions of Asia. Rarely is African philosophy considered in this context, even though Africa and the West are deeply interconnected through long histories of colonialism and slavery.
In this important book Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux argues that a serious engagement with African philosophy is long overdue. She shows that there is a rich tradition of philosophical thought in Africa that addresses issues ranging from the legacies of colonialism to the nature of time, the state, responsibility, identity, dignity and personhood. An engagement with African philosophy also offers a fresh perspective on Western philosophy, prompting us to interrogate ourselves and our own history. Conceptualizing African philosophy becomes a way of conceptualizing the world and of understanding how to know ourselves through the gaze of another.
African Philosophies is not so much a survey of philosophy in Africa but rather an account of how the question of African philosophy emerged in the second half of the 20th century and of what we can learn from a serious engagement with African philosophy today. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in philosophy, in colonial and postcolonial studies and throughout the humanities.
Contents
Foreword by Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Preface
Mirror Effect
I. African Philosophy and Identity
The Invention of Ethnophilosophy
Constructing an African Identity
Elasticity of Philosophy
II. On The Racial and Ethnic Understanding of African Philosophy
On the Use of "Race" and Ethnicity in Philosophy
African Philosophy as the Will to Deconstruction
On the Universality of Philosophy and in Philosophy
III. Displacing the Notion of African Philosophy
Rethinking the Notions of Philosophical Heritage and Tradition
On Conceptualizing African Philosophy as a Site of Encounter and a Form of Evolution
IV. African Philosophy as Praxis: Conceptualizing Social Harmony
African Reading of Politics
Re-inserting the Individual in Society and the Human in the World
The Case for Nomadic Philosophy
Biographical Notes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
