Overview
- Contextualises and presents Hountondji’s influential work to a new audience
- Situates Hountondji's work amongst his contemporaries and compares it to approaches by African philosophers such as Henry Odera Oruka, Kwame Gyekye and Kwasi Wiredu
- Explores the relevance of Hountondji's approach to contemporary transcultural political theory
Part of the book series: Global Political Thinkers (GPT)
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Keywords
- African philosophy
- ethnophilosophy
- endogenous research
- universalism
- Placide Tempels
- Alexis Kagame
- professional philosophy
- Négritude
- anthropology
- African socialism
- Anton Wilhelm Amo
- collective reasoning
- orality
- popular knowledge
- materialism
- dependency theory
- scientific dependency
- scientific autonomy
- scientific extraversion
- Présence Africaine
Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Critique of Ethnophilosophy, the Debate with Contemporaries and Hountondji’s Turn to Endogenous Knowledges
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Hountondji’s Political Oeuvre
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Hountondji as a Global Thinker
Reviews
“Through quite remarkable scholarship, Dubgen and Skupien manage to piece together engraved patterns of logic, coherence and conceptual intrigue in Hountondji’s eventful life and career, which have been marked by meteoric peaks and bouts of furious activity. The book’s other major strength is that it provides a sequential context that is not always evident in the pace and texture of Hountondji’s often inspirational and faintly apocalyptic writings.” (Sanya Osha, The Johannesburg Review of Books, October 07, 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Stefan Skupien is a postdoctoral researcher focusing on the sociology and politics of North-South science cooperation. His research interests include constitutional politics, history of political thought, and solidarity in the European Union. He has been involved in international networks, working towards intercultural conversations and to radically extend the horizon in German debates about African issues. Together with FranziskaDübgen, he edited the first anthology on African political philosophy in German in 2015, Afrikanische Politische Philosophie. Postkoloniale Positionen.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Paulin Hountondji
Book Subtitle: African Philosophy as Critical Universalism
Authors: Franziska Dübgen, Stefan Skupien
Series Title: Global Political Thinkers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01995-2
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01994-5Published: 21 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01995-2Published: 18 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-3874
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3882
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 192
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations Theory, African Politics, Cultural Anthropology, Political Philosophy, Political Theory