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Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780-1830

Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780-1830

Park, Peter K. J.

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, Philosophy and Race

PhilosophyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesHistoriography

ISBN10: 143844642X
ISBN13: 9781438446424
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2014
Pages: 253
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.11 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

A historical investigation of the exclusion of Africa and Asia from modern histories of philosophy.

Winner of the 2016 Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought presented by the Caribbean Philosophical Association

In this provocative historiography, Peter K. J. Park provides a penetrating account of a crucial period in the development of philosophy as an academic discipline. During these decades, a number of European philosophers influenced by Immanuel Kant began to formulate the history of philosophy as a march of progress from the Greeks to Kant-a genealogy that supplanted existing accounts beginning in Egypt or Western Asia and at a time when European interest in Sanskrit and Persian literature was flourishing. Not without debate, these traditions were ultimately deemed outside the scope of philosophy and relegated to the study of religion. Park uncovers this debate and recounts the development of an exclusionary canon of philosophy in the decades of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. To what extent was this exclusion of Africa and Asia a result of the scientization of philosophy? To what extent was it a result of racism?

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