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Dominique Pagani mentions Paulin Hountondji mainly in his 2017 sessions on Stanislas Adotevi's Négritude et négrologues. He presents him as a younger Beninese philosopher and a normalien shaped by the spirit of the École normale supérieure, who shares Adotevi's distrust of the essentialism of négritude12. What he takes from him is a sustained critique of the concept of ethnophilosophy3. He repeatedly recalls Hountondji's reply to the ethnophilosophers, given at the Collège international de philosophie: he is not condemned to serve as a supplement of soul for a Europe in decline of sensibility or short of values45. In 2021 he returns to this critique: ethnophilosophy rests on the myth of a primitive unanimity, makes philosophy a system rather than a history, and addresses a European audience6. He cites Hountondji in a Musicosophie session on interpretation and in a discussion of the "decolonial" and the use of the dominant language.
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Paulin Jidenu Hountondji (11 April 1942 – 2 February 2024) was a Beninese philosopher, politician and academic considered one of the most important figures in the history of African philosophy. From the 1970s onwards, he taught at the Université Nationale du Bénin in Cotonou, where he was Professor of Philosophy. In the early 1990s he briefly served as Minister of Education and Minister for Culture and Communications in the Government of Benin.
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Series · 31 Mar 2021"Red-browns", "decolonial": Should we use the dominant language? • Philosophical Q&A • Pagani
Series · 25 Mar 2021Musicosophy 17. Interpretation
Talks · 8 Jun 2017Negritude and negrologists / Adotevi by Pagani (2017)
Talks · 17 Jun 2017Adotevi: Negritude and negrologists (1)
Talks · 17 Jun 2017Adotevi: Negritude and negrologists (2)