Paulin Hountondji: African Philosophy as Critical Universalism by Franziska DübgenEnglish | PDF | 2019 | 196 Pages | ISBN : 3030019942 | 2.11 MB
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 and science in an African and global context since the 1970s. His radical pledge for scientific autonomy from the global system of knowledge production made him turn to endogenous forms of practising science in academia.