African Philosophy: Myth and Reality

By Paulin J. Hountondji

Book Overview

In this seminal exploration of the nature and future of African philosophy, Paulin J. Hountondji attacks a myth popularized by ethnophilosophers such as Placide Temples and Alexis Kagame that there is an indigenous, collective African philosophy, separate and distinct from the Western philosophical tradition. Hountondji contends that ideological manifestations of this view that stress the uniqueness of the African experience are protonationalist reactions against colonialism conducted, paradoxically, in the terms of colonialist discourse.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253302706
• ISBN13: 9780253302700
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 221 Pages

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African Philosophy

...an implicit philosophy conceived as an unthinking, spontaneous and colective system of thought, common to all africans our to all members past present and future.