V.Y. Mudimbe et la recherche d’une parole pour-soi : l’essai philosophique aux prises avec l’autobiographie : vivre et écrire

Authors

Kasereka Kavwahirehi, Université d’Ottawa

Abstract

This article aims at two closely linked objectives : on the one hand, to show how the philosophical essays of V. Y. Mudimbe carry autobiographical sequences which complete or explain certain passages of his intellectual autobiography (The glorious bodies of words and beings) and, on the other hand, to question the stakes of such a rather singular practice in African philosophy. The basic hypothesis is that this practice is to be understood from an important moment in his intellectual development, namely May 68 and what has been called “La pensée 68” within which two antagonistic tendencies oppose each other, that Mudimbe seeks to reconcile : the scientific rigor of “Philosophy of systems” and the subjectivist methodology of existentialism.

Recommended Citation

Kavwahirehi, Kasereka (2024) "V.Y. Mudimbe et la recherche d’une parole pour-soi : l’essai philosophique aux prises avec l’autobiographie : vivre et écrire," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 101: No. 1, Article 11.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol101/iss1/11