Research Catalog

Title

African philosophy and enactivist cognition : the space of thought / Bruce B. Janz.

Author

Janz, Bruce B., 1960-

Publication

• London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Description

256 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Using classic texts in African philosophy, Bruce B. Janz applies the strand of cognitive science known as enactivism to realise new connections and intersections between both fields. The idea that cognition is embodied and embedded in a social world neatly maps onto specifically African epistemologies to outline a new direction of study on what philosophy is. By working through a rich range of texts and thinkers, Janz provides a fruitful new interpretation of African philosophy and provides close readings of seminal and side lined thinkers to provide an invaluable resource for students and scholars. Janz's study takes in the creative humanism of Sylvia Wynter, Placide Tempels's Bantu Philosophy , Mbiti's theory of time, Oruka's last work on sage philosophy, Mogobe Ramose's own version of Ubuntu, Sophie Oluwole's active literature of philosophy, Achille Mbembe's excoriating attack on the effects of colonialism on life in Africa, and Suzanne Césaire writings on négritude. This book reorients African philosophy towards an active and creative future informed by enactivist thinking"--

Series Statement

Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies

Uniform Title

Bloomsbury studies in world philosophies.

Subject

• Philosophy, African
• Cognitive science
• Philosophy of mind
• Philosophy and cognitive science > Africa
• Philosophy and cognitive science
• Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-251) and index.

Contents

Foreword / by Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Introduction: Spaces of Thought in African Philosophy -- 1. The Ceremony Found and a New Human Problematic: Sylvia Wynter After Humanism -- 2. Vitalism and Bantu Philosophy: Placide Tempels and Jamaa -- 3. Sasa, Zamani, and Myths of the Future: John Mbiti, Memory and Time -- 4. Oginga Odinga as Sage Philosopher: H. Odera Oruka and Historicity -- 5. Ubuntu as Enactivism: Mogobe Ramose and Be-ing -- 6. A Literary Tradition of Thought: Sophie Olâuwolé, Euphrase Kezilahabi, and a Literature of Philosophy -- 7. How Do We Speak Of Our Place? Achille Mbembe's World -- 8. The Poet Becomes a Prophet': Suzanne Roussi Cesaire's Negritude -- Conclusion: Future Events?

Call Number

ReCAP 23-3072

ISBN

• 9781350292185
• 1350292184

OCLC

1298882051

Author

Janz, Bruce B., 1960- author.

Title

African philosophy and enactivist cognition : the space of thought / Bruce B. Janz.

Publisher

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies

Bloomsbury studies in world philosophies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-251) and index.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 23-3072