Phenomenology in an African Context
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9487-6 (ISBN)
African phenomenology is an emerging subfield within the broader domain of African and Africana philosophy. The phenomenological method, with its various approaches to studying the seminal structures and meaning of human experience, has been a cornerstone in the thought of African philosophers such as Paulin Hountondji, Tsenay Serequeberhan, Achille Mbembe, D. A. Masolo, and Mabogo More, as well as proponents of Africana philosophy such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Lucius Outlaw, and Lewis Gordon. Technically, however, the term "African phenomenology" is not used as widely, or introduced as systematically, as Africana phenomenology. This anthology aims to fill this gap by exploring contributions and challenges to phenomenology in its African context and demonstrating the differences this context makes to the practice of phenomenology. Written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field—including Hountondji, Serequeberhan, Mbembe, More, Gordon, and M. John Lamola—the sixteen original essays here address the relation of African phenomenology to African/Africana philosophy, postcolonial/decolonial discourse, and deliberations within the international phenomenological community.
Abraham Olivier is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Fort Hare. He is the author of Being in Pain. M. John Lamola is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Technology at University of Johannesburg. He is the author of Sowing in Tears: A Documentary History of the Church Struggle Against Apartheid, 1960–1990. Justin Sands is Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, Extraordinary Fellow at North-West University, and Senior Lecturer at St. Augustine College of South Africa. He is the author of Reasoning from Faith: Fundamental Theology in Merold Westphal's Philosophy of Religion.
Introduction
Abraham Olivier, M. John Lamola, and Justin Sands
Part 1: Origin, Methodology, and Scope
1. African Phenomenology—What Is That?
Abraham Olivier
2. Some Reflections from Africana Phenomenology on African Phenomenology
Lewis R. Gordon
3. Why Husserl in Africa? Autobiographical Reflections
Paulin J. Hountondji
4. Hountondji and Husserl: Subjectivity, Responsibility, and Phenomenology in the Critique of Ethnophilosophy
Patrick Eldridge
5. Philosophical Universality in Crisis: Hountondji’s Interruption of Husserlian Phenomenology
Carmen De Schryver
Part 2: Consciousness, Identity, Existence, and Embodiment
6. Chabani Manganyi: The Lived Experience of Difference
Mabogo Percy More
7. A Post-Sartrean Reflection on Being Black in the World: Reading Steve Biko through Slavoj Žižek
M. John Lamola
8. Blackness as a Conundrum for Phenomenology
Keolebogile Mbebe and Thabang Dladla
9. Merleau-Ponty, Embodied Subjectivity, and (White) Women Dancing
Rianna Oelofsen
10. The Experience of Community and the Meaningful Life
Ada Agada
Part 3: Art, Culture, Language, Politics, and Liberation
11. Savage Objects: On the Restitution of Alienated Meaning
Achille Mbembe
12. On the Phenomenology of a Shared World in Achille Mbembe
Schalk Gerber
13. The Voice of African Philosophy
Tsenay Serequeberhan
14. Communal Space, Communal Temporality: Kwasi Wiredu and Henri Bergson in Dialogue
Justin Sands
15. Artifacts of Emotion and Existence in Unjust Structures
Uchenna Okeja
16. Experience and Text: Toward an African-Language Phenomenology
Alena Rettová
Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SUNY series, Philosophy and Race |
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 0 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 227 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-9487-4 / 1438494874 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-9487-6 / 9781438494876 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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