Paulin Hountondji African Philosophy as Critical Universalism /

• Main Authors: Dübgen, Franziska (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Skupien, Stefan (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Global Political Thinkers
• Subjects: International relations.; Africa-Politics and government.; Ethnology.; Political philosophy.; Political theory.; International Relations Theory.; African Politics.; Cultural Anthropology.; Political Philosophy.; Political Theory.

Paulin J. Hountondji is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary African philosophy. His critique of ethnophilosophy as a colonial, exoticising and racialized undertaking provoked contentious debates among African intellectuals on the proper methods and scope of philosophy...