« Emplois et réemplois de la philosophie » : la philosophie africaine en question(s)
« Use and re-use of philosophy » : African philosophy questioned

Summary/Abstract: Ethnophilosophy does not represent what should be called here African philosophy. Such is the clarification which Marcian Towa attempts, when he reacts after the publication Bantou philosophy by Placide Tempels. He characterizes such philosophy in a pejorative way as being ethno-philosophy, a double treason of both ethnology and philosophy. The same criticism is equally resounding in Fabien Eboussi, who proposes to clarify the conditions of a "use and re-use of philosophy". Here we would like to suggest through the hermenetics perspective, the contrary and the reverse side of an expression (ethnophilosophy) that still bears until today, misunderstandings.

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