The Postcolonial heart of African philosophy

Title: The Postcolonial heart of African philosophy
Creator: Tabensky, Pedro
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2008
Date: 2008
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/305762
Identifier: vital:58610
Identifier: xlink:href="https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC96056"
Description: This piece is one of among a handful that seek in the first instance to reveal the origin of African philosophy as an academic discipline, the source of its unity and distinctiveness. The discipline of African philosophy originates in tragedy, out of pain, confusion and rage stemming from colonial destruction; destruction that is responsible for what Fanon calls the ‘negro neurosis’ caused by what Biko would describe as the unbearable fusion of colonised and coloniser. I argue that the birth of African philosophy as an academic discipline is largely responsible for its character and, crucially, for its distinctive creative possibilities.
Format: computer
Format: online resource
Format: application/pdf
Format: 1 online resource (11 pages)
Format: pdf
Publisher: Sabinet
Language: English
Relation: South African Journal of Philosophy= Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Wysbegeerte
Relation: Tabensky, P.A., 2008. The Postcolonial heart of African philosophy. South African Journal of Philosophy= Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Wysbegeerte, 27(4), pp.285-295
Relation: South African Journal of Philosophy= Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Wysbegeerte volume 27 number 4 p. 285 2008 2073-4867
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