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- Title
Philosophy in Black: African Philosophy as a Negritude.
- Authors
Jacques, Tomaz Carlos Flores
- Abstract
African philosophy, as a negritude, is a moment in the postcolonial critique of European/Western colonialism and the bodies of knowledge that sustained it. Yet a critical analysis of its' original articulations reveals the limits of this critique and more broadly of postcolonial studies, while also pointing towards more radical theoretical possibilities within African philosophy. Jean-Paul Sartre's essay 'Black Orpheus', a philosophical appropriation of negritude poetry, serves as a guide for this reflection, for the text reveals the inspiration and wealth of expressions of negritude, as well as their ambiguity. Sartre's essay however also renders possible a further act of re-appropriation that takes us beyond culture and identity-centred readings of African philosophy and postcolonialism, readings whose conceptual and critical potential is far greater than what has hitherto been explored.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHY; IMPERIALISM; RACIAL identity of Black people; CULTURE; SARTRE, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980
- Publication
Sartre Studies International, 2011, Vol 17, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1357-1559
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/ssi.2011.170101