Hegel's twilight : : liber amicorum discipulorumque pro Heinz Kimmerle / / edited by Mogobe B. Ramose.

• Superior document: Studies in intercultural philosophy = Studien zur interkulturellen Philosophie = Etudes de philosophie interculturelle ; 23
• TeilnehmendeR: Ramose, Mogobe B.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Rodopi,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Studien zur interkulturellen Philosophie ; 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Notes: Festschrift.

Professor Heinz Kimmerle encountered African philosophy at a time when his specialisation in the philosophy of Hegel had attained world recognition. For Hegel, African philosophy did not exist in Sub-Saharan Africa, exactly the area in which Kimmerle made his first contact with African philosophy. Hegel’s philosophy was not a stranger to Sub-Saharan Africa. This was because the Western educational paradigm was imposed upon the conquered, colonized peoples during the period of colonisation. Unlike Hegel, Kimmerle took African philosophy seriously and engaged, initially, in dialogues with African philosophy. Out of the unfolding dialogues grew intercultural philosophy spearheaded by Kimmerle’s penetrating, insightful and incisive critique of some of the fundamental presuppositions of Hegel’s philosophy. The essays contained in this book focus on the evolution of Kimmerle’s conception and meaning of intercultural philosophy. Underlying this are recognition and respect for other modes of doing philosophy as manifestations of intercultural philosophy. To deny dialogues, if you prefer, polylogue among world philosophies, is to reject the very basis of philosophy. Thus a crucial dimension of philosophy would be precluded, which can be found in this book, namely, the critical evaluation of Kimmerle’s conception and meaning of intercultural philosophy.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- EDITORIAL NOTE -- WAY OF THINKING, THINKING OF WAY(S) -- BEYOND CROSSING BORDERS, BEYOND INTERCULTURAL PHILOSOPHY -- COSMOPOLITAN AESTHETICS / Sybrandt van Keulen -- “AD MULTOS ET FAUSTOS ANNOS!” PROFESSEUR KIMMERLE / Mawule Kuamvi Kuakuvi -- AESTHETICS OF GIKUYU PROVERBS / Gerald J. Wanjohi -- “ONE PERSON CANNOT EMBRACE A BAOBAB”: ABOUT HOSPITALITY IN PHILOSOPHY / Henk Haenen -- POVERTY AND UBUNTU / Murray Hofmeyr -- MODEL SYNTHESIS AS A META-HEURISTICS FOR REALISTIC DESCRIPTIVE MODELS / Dieter Gernert -- NKRUMAH AND HOUNTONDJI ON ETHNO-PHILOSOPHY A CRITICAL APPRAISAL / Martin Odei Ajei -- CRISIS AND CRITIQUE. RETURN OF MARXISM? / Hauke Brunkhorst -- AIDS AND THE CHALLENGE OF RETHINKING SEX EDUCATION IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA: AN AFRO-PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE / Pascah Mungwini -- AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE STRATEGIC SIGNIFICANCE OF HIV/AIDS FOR AFRICA AND HER DIASPORA / Mogobe B. Ramose -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- ABOUT THE BOOK.