AUC INTERPRETATIONES
AUC INTERPRETATIONES
AUC Interpretationes. Journal of Contemporary Phenomenology is a new series and a continuation of AUC Interpretationes. Studia Philosophica Europeana, that has covered since 2009 a broader view on 20th-century philosophy, while it is now focusing more particularly on French and German phenomenology.

AUC INTERPRETATIONES, Vol 5 No 1 (2015), 115–129

Née du désastre. Critique de l’ethnophilosophie, pensée sociale et africanité

[Born of disaster. Criticism of ethnophilosophy, social thought and africanity]

Norman Ajari

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/24646504.2016.7
published online: 06. 05. 2016

abstract

Debate between cultural fundamentalism of “ethnophilosophers” and its progressive critics has been central to contemporary African philosophy. This text deals with a hidden disagreement among the critical camp. Against Paulin Hountondji’s scientism, it takes side for Fabien Eboussi Boulaga’s ethical and existential interpretation of African traditions. Rejecting both search for glorious ancestors and limitation of theoretical discourse to epistemology, he pleads for a revalorization of African humanness and elaborates a negativity-grounded ethics that anticipates Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu’s interpretation of ubuntu.

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