非洲的发明

简介

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, a Congolese philosopher, novelist and poet teaching in the United States, published the book in 1988 with the subtitle “Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge”. Following Foucault’s archaeology of knowledge, he examines the “colonial library” – travel accounts, missionary writings, anthropology – that constructed Africa as primitive and other. He shows that even African discourses about Africa, from Tempels and Kagame through Négritude to the debate between ethnophilosophy and its critics, remained tied to this order of knowledge. Mudimbe asks how an African gnosis might speak without merely reproducing Western categories. The book shared the Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association in 1989.

联系

承接了

• 词与物1966 · 米歇尔·福柯
• 非洲哲学：神话与现实1976 · 保兰·洪通吉

批评了

• 班图哲学1945 · 普拉希德·坦普尔斯