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Habermas and the Reframing of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy

This year’s seminar, Burning Issues in African Philosophy, is curated by Drucilla Cornell and Souleymane Bachir Diagne and presented by the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. It includes six seminars with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Paget Henry, Nkiru Nzegwu, Olufemi Taiwo, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, and Lewis Gordon. It builds off of the sophisticated work that has now become part of an international conversation on how African philosophy makes unique interventions into almost every important question of politics, ethics, aesthetics, ontology and epistemology. It begins by challenging the conventional Afro-pessimistic view of time as being unable to organize a future perspective that would allow for adequate industrialization and development. If time is what happens inseparable from events, this does not mean that there is no future in African philosophy. What it means is that there is no future that can be foreclosed or known in advance and thus possibilities for the future remain open. It is therefore up to our actions to bring about the future that we want.











When: Wed., Nov. 2, 2016 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where: Columbia University
116th St. & Broadway
212-854-1754
Price: Free
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This year’s seminar, Burning Issues in African Philosophy, is curated by Drucilla Cornell and Souleymane Bachir Diagne and presented by the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. It includes six seminars with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Paget Henry, Nkiru Nzegwu, Olufemi Taiwo, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, and Lewis Gordon. It builds off of the sophisticated work that has now become part of an international conversation on how African philosophy makes unique interventions into almost every important question of politics, ethics, aesthetics, ontology and epistemology. It begins by challenging the conventional Afro-pessimistic view of time as being unable to organize a future perspective that would allow for adequate industrialization and development. If time is what happens inseparable from events, this does not mean that there is no future in African philosophy. What it means is that there is no future that can be foreclosed or known in advance and thus possibilities for the future remain open. It is therefore up to our actions to bring about the future that we want.

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