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050		4	_aB5310 _b.H697 2013
082	0	4	_a199.6 _223
100	1		_aHountondji, Paulin J., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSur la "philosophie africaine" _h[electronic resource] : _bcritique de liethnophilosophie / _cPaulin J. Hountondji.
260			_aBaltimore, Maryland : _bProject Muse, _c2013 _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
260			_a[Oxford, England] : _bDistributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective _c _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
260			_aMankon, Cameroon : _bLangaa Research & Publishing CIG, _c[2013] _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (1 PDF (iv, 236 pages))
500			_aIssued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aArguments -- Une litterature alienee -- Histoire d'un mythe -- L'idee de philosophie -- La philosophie et ses revolutions -- Analyses -- Un philosophe africain dans l'Allemagne du XVIIIeme siecle -- La fin du "nkrumaïsme" et la (re)naissance de Nkrumah -- L'idee de philosophie dans "Le Consciencisme" de Nkrumah -- Vrai et faux pluralisme -- Post-scriptum.
520			_aMany 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!
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aPhilosophy, African.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse, _edistributor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z995679032X _z9789956790326
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9789956790838/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c33699 _d33699