African Philosophy and Enactivist Cognition

The Space of Thought

Bruce B. Janz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-29218-5 (ISBN)

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Using classic texts in African philosophy, Bruce B. Janz applies the strand of cognitive science known as enactivism to realise new connections and intersections between both fields. The idea that cognition is embodied and embedded in a social world neatly maps onto specifically African epistemologies to outline a new direction of study on what philosophy is.

By working through a rich range of texts and thinkers, Janz provides a fruitful new interpretation of African philosophy and provides close readings of seminal and sidelined thinkers to provide an invaluable resource for students and scholars. Janz’s study takes in the creative humanism of Sylvia Wynter, Placide Tempels’s Bantu Philosophy, Mbiti’s theory of time, Oruka’s last work on sage philosophy, Mogobe Ramose’s own version of Ubuntu, Sophie Oluwole’s active literature of philosophy, Achille Mbembe’s excoriating attack on the effects of colonialism on life in Africa, and Suzanne Césaire writings on négritude.

This book reorients African philosophy towards an active and creative future informed by enactivist thinking.

Bruce B. Janz is Professor of Humanities in the Department of Philosophy and co-director of the Center for Humanities and Digital Research at the University of Central Florida, USA.

Foreword: Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Spaces of Thought in African Philosophy
1. The Ceremony Found and a New Human Problematic: Sylvia Wynter After Humanism
2. Vitalism and Bantu Philosophy: Placide Tempels and Jamaa
3. Sasa, Zamani, and Myths of the Future: John Mbiti, Memory and Time
4. Oginga Odinga as Sage Philosopher: H. Odera Oruka and Historicity
5. Ubuntu as Enactivism: Mogobe Ramose and Be-ing
6. A Literary Tradition of Thought: Sophie Olúw?lé, Euphrase Kezilahabi, and a Literature of Philosophy
7. How Do We Speak Of Our Place? Achille Mbembe’s World
8. “The Poet Becomes a Prophet”: Suzanne Roussi Cesaire’s Négritude
9. Future Events?

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Erscheinungsdatum	03.11.2022
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-350-29218-4 / 1350292184
ISBN-13	978-1-350-29218-5 / 9781350292185
Zustand	Neuware