非洲哲学：神话与现实

简介

A collection of essays by the Beninese philosopher Paulin Hountondji, published in French in 1976 (Sur la « philosophie africaine ») and in English in 1983. Its main target is what Hountondji called “ethnophilosophy”: attempts, from Placide Tempels’ Bantu Philosophy to the Rwandan Alexis Kagame, to reconstruct the supposedly shared worldview of a whole people and present it as their philosophy. Such projects, he argues, treat Africans as bearers of an unconscious collective system and are addressed to a European audience. Philosophy is instead a body of explicit, argued texts open to criticism – and needs a scientific culture of its own. Critics accused him of Eurocentrism and elitism, and the book set off a long debate in African philosophy.

联系

批评了

• 班图—卢旺达存在哲学1956 · 亚历克西斯·卡加梅
• 良知论（Consciencism）1964 · 克瓦米·恩克鲁玛
• 黑人性与人道主义（Liberté I）1964 · 列奥波德·塞达尔·桑戈尔

被承接于

• 非洲的发明1988 · V. Y. 穆丁贝
• 在我父亲的屋子里：文化哲学中的非洲1992 · 夸梅·安东尼·阿皮亚

被回应于

• 论非洲哲学思想：阿肯人的概念框架1987 · 夸梅·吉耶基
• 圣哲哲学1990 · 亨利·奥德拉·奥鲁卡