V. Y. 穆丁贝

Agora

V. Y. 穆丁贝

1941–2025

初步了解有意简化——人物介绍讲得更多

世界所知道的非洲是由西方探险家、传教士和学者发明出来的——非洲人必须夺回定义自己的权力。

定位

非洲与非洲裔哲学 · 撒哈拉以南非洲 · 认识论, 社会与历史

刚果哲学家和小说家：在《非洲的发明》中，他追溯了西方的“殖民图书馆”如何把非洲建构为知识的对象。

核心思想

殖民图书馆
灵知（gnosis）
非洲话语的考古学

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影响

受影响于 4

克洛德·列维-斯特劳斯

受其影响
Mudimbe credited Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism with breaking evolutionist anthropology and opening a new reading of African systems of thought (The Invention of Africa, 1988). V. Y. Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa (1988); L’Odeur du père (1982)
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克洛德·列维-斯特劳斯 › 1908–2009
米歇尔·福柯

受其影响
Mudimbe used Foucault’s archaeology of knowledge to ask how Africa became an object of Western discourse, its ‘colonial library’ (The Invention of Africa, 1988). V. Y. Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge (1988); M. Foucault, L’Archéologie du savoir (1969)
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米歇尔·福柯 › 1926–1984
法比恩·埃布西·布拉加

受其影响
Mudimbe discussed Eboussi Boulaga’s critique of ethnophilosophy and of missionary Christianity in The Invention of Africa (1988) and commented on the reissue of Christianity without Fetishes (2002). V. Y. Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa (1988); F. Eboussi Boulaga, “Le Bantou problématique”, Présence Africaine 66 (1968); Christianity without Fetishes (1981; repr. 2002)
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法比恩·埃布西·布拉加 › 1934–2018
保兰·洪通吉

受其影响
Mudimbe discussed Hountondji’s critique of ethnophilosophy but held that this debate, too, remained within the Western order of knowledge (The Invention of Africa, 1988). V. Y. Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa (1988); P. J. Hountondji, Sur la « philosophie africaine » (1976)
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保兰·洪通吉 › 1942–2024

影响了 1

瓦尔特·米尼奥罗

影响了
Mignolo’s “border gnosis” in Local Histories/Global Designs (2000) borrows the term gnosis from Mudimbe’s The Invention of Africa (1988), for knowledge produced from the colonial difference rather than within the Western order of knowledge. W. D. Mignolo, Local Histories/Global Designs (2000); V. Y. Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa (1988)
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瓦尔特·米尼奥罗 › 1941年生

批评

批评了 2

普拉希德·坦普尔斯

批评了
Mudimbe placed Tempels’ Bantu Philosophy in the ‘colonial library’, as part of a missionary project of conversion that describes Africans in Europe’s categories (The Invention of Africa, 1988). V. Y. Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa (1988)
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普拉希德·坦普尔斯 › 1906–1977
谢赫·安塔·迪奥普

批评了
Mudimbe counted Diop’s work among the most extreme examples of an ideological process set in motion by African scholars against the colonial library (The Invention of Africa, 1988). V. Y. Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa (1988); C. A. Diop, Nations nègres et culture (1954)
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谢赫·安塔·迪奥普 › 1923–1986

作品

1988非洲的发明
对各种话语——人类学、传教士著作、非洲哲学——的考古学，非洲正是通过它们成为知识的对象。

立场

In “The Invention of Africa” Mudimbe used Foucault’s archaeology of knowledge to ask how Africa became an object of knowledge. Travellers, anthropologists and missionaries produced a “colonial library” of discourses in which Africa appeared as the primitive other of Europe. Tempels’ Bantu philosophy belonged to this conversion project, and even the debate about ethnophilosophy, Hountondji’s critique included, remained within Western categories. Against a narrow concept of philosophy he spoke of African gnosis: the many forms of knowledge in which Africans think. His question – how can Africans speak of themselves in concepts not made by Western discourse? – shaped postcolonial studies and later debates on African philosophy.

生平与背景

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe was born in 1941 in Jadotville (today Likasi) in the Belgian Congo. He spent time as a novice in a Benedictine monastery, then studied at Lovanium University and earned a doctorate in Louvain in 1970. After teaching in Zaire he went into exile around 1980 and taught in the United States, at Haverford, Stanford and Duke. He also wrote novels and poetry. He died in 2025.