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Incontro Con La Filosofia Africana Incontro con la filosofia africana B@belonline/print Rivista semestrale di Filosofia N. 6 –Anno 2009 SÉNÉGAL Alioune Diop ERITREA Cheikh Anta Diop Tsenay Serequeberhan Léopold Sédar Senghor GHANA Kwame Anthony Appiah COSTA D’AVORIO Kwasi Wiredu Paulin Hountondji CAMERUN Fabien Eboussi Boulaga Jean-Marc Ela REPUB. DEMOC. DEL CONGO Albert Lumembu Kasanda Valentin Yves Mudimbe Albertine Tshibilondi Ngoy ANGOLA Pedro Francisco Miguel MOZAMBICO Severino Elias Ngoenha B@belonline/print è la versione a stampa della rivista elettronica www.babelonline.net Due modalità di esprimere la filosofia oggi che dialogano nell’identità e nella differenza dei modi e dei contenuti Questo numero della rivista è stato realizzato con il contributo del Dipartimento di Filosofia dell’Università degli Studi Roma Tre B@belonline/print Direzione e Redazione Dipartimento di Filosofia Università degli Studi Roma Tre Via Ostiense 234 00146 Roma Sito Internet:http://host.uniroma3.it/dipartimenti/filosofia Tel. + 39.06.57338338/ 57338425 – fax + 39.06.57338340 Direttore: Francesca Brezzi Comitato direttivo: Patrizia Cipolletta ([email protected]) e Chiara Di Marco ([email protected] ) Comitato scientifico:Giuseppe Cantillo, Riccardo Chiaradonna, Claudia Dovolich, Roberto Finelli, Daniella Iannotta, Giacomo Marramao, Elio Matassi, Paolo Nepi, Maria Teresa Pan- sera, Stefano Poggi, Beatrice Tortolici, Carmelo Vigna Comitato di redazione: Francesca Gambetti, Carla Guetti, Sabine Meine Libri per recensioni possono essere inviati alla Segreteria di redazione Claudia Dovolich presso il Diparti- mento di Filosofia. 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Numeri arretrati: versare 20 € sul c.c. indicato e inviare la ricevuta alla Redazione © 2007 – Mimesis Edizioni (Milano) Sede operativa e amministrativa: Via Mario Pichi 3 – 20143 Milano Telefono e fax: +39 02 89403935 Per urgenze: +39 347 4254976 E-mail: [email protected] Catalogo e sito Internet: www.mimesisedizioni.it B @belonline/print Voci e percorsi della differenza Rivista di Filosofia Mimesis B @belonline I ndice Editoriale di Francesca Brezzi p. 7 Il tema di B@bel a cura di Lidia Procesi p. 9 Incontro con la filosofia africana Presentazione di Lidia Procesi p. 11 Kwame Anthony Appiah Filosofia Africana p. 23 Cheikh Anta Diop Anteriorità delle civilizzazioni negre p. 29 Léopold Sédar Senghor Prefazione all’edizione francese-peul del Corano p. 37 Alioune Diop Niam M’Paya. Il fine divorato dai mezzi p. 43 Valentin Yves Mudimbe Niam M’Paya. Alle fonti di un pensiero africano p. 49 Pedro Francisco Miguel Jikuku. L’ontologia ancestrale p. 59 Paulin Hountondji La conoscenza come scopo e risultato dello sviluppo p. 77 Fabien Eboussi Boulaga L’onore di pensare p. 89 Kwasi Wiredu La necessità di una decolonizzazione concettuale nella filosofia africana p. 97 Jean-Marc Ela Ecologia e teologia africane p. 109 Severino Elias Ngoenha Nature, culture, ecologie. Invito a un dialogo interculturale p. 119 Albert Kasanda Le tradizioni africane alla prova della globalizzazione Note sull’interculturalità in Africa p. 139 Albertine Tshibilondi Ngoyi La filosofia africana e la questione del genere p. 151 Tsenay Serequeberhan La lotta anti-colonialista africana. Rivendicare la storia p. 167 I ndice B @belonline Spazio aperto a cura di Paolo Nepi Gernoth Böhme The art of the stage set as a paradigm for an aesthetics of atmospheres p. 187 Ventaglio delle donne a cura di Maria Teresa Pansera Ottavia Nicolini Per una lettura femminista di Hannah Arendt p. 197 Filosofia e ...Mistica a cura di Beatrice Tortolici Gilles Franҫois L’Europe et le langage de la mystique féminine Madeleine Delbrêl et une vie de conversion p. 213 Immagini e Filosofia a cura di Daniella Iannotta Alessandro Tiberio Sincronicità e cinema. Il curioso caso di Benjamin Button e Un’altra giovinezza p. 229 Giardino di B@bel a cura di Claudia Dovolich Valentina Menesatti Aprirsi nel dolore. L’incontro di Heidegger e Jünger sulle Stimmungen p. 243 Ai margini del giorno a cura di Patrizia Cipolletta Pino Blasone Il sé attraverso l’altro nel pensiero arabo p. 255 Libri ed eventi A cura di Chiara Di Marco Libri… Paolo D’Angelo, Cesare Brandi. Critica d’arte e filosofia (Vincenzo Martorano) p. 266 V. Possenti (a cura di), Ritorno della religione? Tra ragione, fede e società (Alexia Giustini) p. 269 … ed eventi Psicologia, fenomenologia e antropologia (A. De Luca/R.Mulato/M.Fazi/M.T. Pansera) p. 271 E ditoriale B @bel di Francesca Brezzi Questo numero di �«����������������������������������B@belonline/print�»����������������������� ����������������������si inserisce nell’am- bito della filosofia interculturale, offrendo un panorama degli autori e delle problematiche della filosofia africana, nel rispet- to, come afferma la curatrice, di situazione in fieri che la carat- terizza. Per questo si è data voce ai protagonisti, evitando così sovrimposizione di categorie concettuali estranee, che ne avreb- bero potuto distorcere il discorso e offuscare l’analisi. Scorrendo i vari saggi si comprende come in un settore così complesso si debbano schivare presupposizioni acritiche per realizzare una comprensione piena e liberarsi dagli opposti pericoli dell’etno- centrismo e del relativismo, pur seguendo con molta acribia le ragioni “nostre” e quelle “loro”. Questo numero accoglie i saggi più significativi di un ambi- to geografico e culturale, frammentato ma ricco, omogeneo ma diversificato in tanti sentieri intellettuali, così da fare emergere il filo che lega le varie prospettive filosofiche. Questo aiuta ad orientarci nella difficile trama della filosofia africana, a partire dall’esigenza di ripensare in maniera meno autoreferenziale ed eurocentrica la storia e la cultura nella sua totalità. Una nuova declinazione del pensare filosofico si è fatta strada, ovvero ha fatto irruzione quell’insieme di teorie e pratiche che vengono variamente caratterizzate come Filosofia del Multiculturalismo, Editoriale Filosofia Comparativista – o Cross-Cultural Philosophy – Fi- losofia Interculturale, definizione che privilegiamo. Riteniamo Il tema di B@bel che per la filosofia tale declinazione diventi un compito etico per evitare atteggiamenti colonialisti. Filosofia, quindi, che rimette Spazio aperto in discussione le proprie mire universalistiche in vista – sulla scia di Paul Ricœur, di Martha Nussbaum e di altri – della for- Ventaglio delle donne mulazione del concetto stesso di universale come universale in situazione o in contesto. Filosofia e... Conoscere le filosofie africane con l’ottica della Filosofia Immagini e Filosofia Giardino di B@bel Ai margini del giorno Libri ed eventi E ditoriale Interculturale consente una riformulazione profonda delle categorie abituali del pensiero filosofico “occidentale”, che sarà inteso come una possibile tradizione filosofica insieme con altre, con cui è chiamato, nella contemporaneità, ad instaurare un dialogo paritetico che conduca ad una cessazione delle pratiche di dominio culturale. La filosofia come apertura e dialogo con le tradizioni altre di pensiero mostra immediatamente il proprio carattere pluri- voco e poliedrico, che sfugge a troppo rigide sistematizzazioni e parametrizzazioni. Filosofia liminale e di confine, spesso nel senso più letterale del termine, essa si articola in una varietà di modalità, che non possono essere racchiuse in una definizione univocamente accettata. 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