The Geography Of African Philosophy

Keywords

Africa; African philosophy; Africanity; Colonialism; Geography; Philosophy; Philosophy-in-place; Place; Place; Space; Thought

Abstract

Janz addresses several questions pertaining to geography, place, and space in African philosophy. First, to what extent and in what way has the Africanity of African philosophy shaped its historical and contemporary practice? How is “Africa” conceived by African philosophy? Second, how does philosophy differ in different places across the continent? How does geography matter in the history of African philosophical and conceptual development? Third, how have the spatial incursions and domination of external exploration and colonialism had an effect on the development and emergence of African philosophy? Fourth, what are the imagined and desired spaces of thought in Africa? Is there intellectual space that emerges before or after colonial domination, or as an alternative to it? Fifth, how does the African diaspora relate to the continent intellectually? Sixth, what is the geography of African philosophy in the world? What are its allegiances and its conversations, and how do (or how might) those shift over time? Seventh, (how) has African philosophy reflected on its own places, both in a physical sense and in an intellectual sense? How has it carved out and maintained an intellectual space, or alternately how has it examined life within its own spaces? And finally eighth, how can African philosophy spring from its own places, that is how can it become philosophy-in-place?

Publication Date

1-1-2017

Publication Title

The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy

Number of Pages

155-166

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59291-0_11

Socpus ID

85042445515 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85042445515

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