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Tarpkultūrinio sąlyčio paieškos Juodosios Afrikos ir Europos filosofinėje komparatyvistikoj
The Hunting for the Contacts in the Black African and European Philosophical Comparativism

Author(s): Žilvinas Vareikis
Subject(s): Philosophy, Communication studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Visuomeninė organizacija »LOGOS«
Keywords: Kimmerle; Derrida; cultural Other; dialogue; intercultural philosophy; African philosophy;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the German speaking Heinze Kimmerle’s investigations into the relevant problems of philosophical comparativism and to intercultural communication. Kimmerle’s philosophical Weltanschauung grew from the reflexion that had started between European (Derrida, Deleuze) and African (Kwame Gyaykye, Maurice Tschiamalenga Ntumba) philosophers over intercultural communication problems. The fundamental problem – the hunting for an authentic dialogue between the Black Africa tradition and European philosophy. On the one side, this hunting is based on Plato’s dialogue and on the paradoxical character of the African palaver. On the other side, it revealed not the drama of incommensurability of heterogeneous cultures but it the positive efforts to understand each other.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 103
  • Page Range: 57-66
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Lithuanian