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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Hountondji's Critique of Ethnophilosophy and his Notion of African Philosophy
• Chapter 3: The Debate on Ethnophilosophy between Hountondji and his Contemporary Critics
• Chapter 4: Path-clearing: Philosophy and History, Scientific Dependency, and Hountondji's Turn to Endogenous Knowledge
• Chapter 5: Hountondji as a Public Intellectual and his Political Career
• Chapter 6: New Approaches to Scientific Dependency and Extraversion: Southern Theory, Epistemic Justice and the Quest to Decolonize Academia
• Chapter 7: Hountondji's Notion of Culture and his Critique of Identitarian Politics
• Chapter 8: Debating the Universal as an Unfinished Project and Regulative Ideal
• Chapter 9: A Preliminary Conclusion.