ISSN 1011-226

Quest 

An African Journal of Philosophy

Revue Africaine de Philosophie

 

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IMPORTANT NOTICE (Dec. 2008): After some setbacks, by the end of 2008 we have finally been able to bring out as many as three new annual volumes of quest: 2006 (xx), 2007 (xxi) and 2008 (xxii). This brings the journal up to date again. Sanya osha edited a timely and fascinating special issue on african feminisms (xx – 2006) with a team of high-ranking contributors -- including some of the most prominent women intellectuals of Africa, and the prominent Nigerian philosopher Eze (♂). Wim van binsbergen edited a special issue on lines and rhizomes: the transcontinental element in african philosophies (xxi - 2007), as well as as a general volume xxii – 2008 under the title African philosophy and the negotiation of practical dilemmas of individual and collective life. We thank our authors, readers, publishers sending review copies, and subscription agents, for their patience and continued support of quest. As Editor, I also wish to thank my fellow members of the Editorial Team, Sanya Osha and Kirsten Seifikar, for their hard work and perseverance. As a sign of the continued resilience and quality of quest, I am pleased to announce that the prominent African / global philosopher Valentin Mudimbe, a regular contributor in recent years, has agreed to join our Advisory Editorial Board, to fill the place sadly vacated by the demise of the lamented Lolle Nauta; an obituary of the latter will appear in the imminent volume XXIII.

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Volume XXI (2007)

 

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ISSN 1011-226X

QUEST

An African Journal of Philosophy/

Revue Africaine de Philosophie

Vol. XXI, No. 1-2, 2007

Special issue on: Lines and rhizomes -- The transcontinental element in African philosophies

editor for this issue: Wim van Binsbergen

Table of Contents

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Table of contents

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ARTICLES

 

LINES AND RHIZOMES: the Transcontinental element in African philosophies: Introduction, by Wim van Binsbergen
 

7

What is a line? On paradoxes about allegories of identity and alterity, by Valentin Y. Mudimbe
 

23

Marcien Towa entre deux cultures, par Samba Diakité
 

63

Philosophic sagacity: A classical comprehension and relevance to post-colonial social spaces in Africa, by F. Ochieng’-Odhiambo
 

91

The use of several species of ad hominem arguments in Plato’s Protagoras, by Victor S. Alumona
 

109

Four Problems with Barry Hallen’s Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy, by Kibujjo Kalumba
 

141

The eclectic scientism of Félix Guattari: Africanist anthropology as both critic and potential  beneficiary of his thought
by Wim M.J. van Binsbergen

 

155

The Golden Rule principle in an African ethics, and Kant’s Categorical Imperative: A comparative study on the foundation of morality, by Godwin Azenabor
 

229

L’éducation selon Mounier: Une philosophie pratique au service du développement, par Jacques Nanema
 

241

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Philosophie de la nature et sauvegarde écologique de la terre chez Teilhard de Chardin, par Dieudonné Zognong
 

271

Pierre Meinrad Hebga (1928-2008): un maître d’Afrique, par Jean Bertrand Amougou
 

293

Reviews section

 

Kwame Anthony Appiah, 2006, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a world of strangers (Mohammad Hossein Seifikar)
 

307

Barry Hallen, 2006, African philosophy: The analytic approach (F. Ochieng’-Odhiambo)
 

315

Jean Fonkoué, 2004, Cheikh Anta Diop au carrefour des historiographies. Une relecture (Lusala l.n.N.Luka, S.J).
 

325

Notes on contributors

329

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