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40The Future of the History of PhilosophyThe Philosopher. 2023.One way to scry the future of philosophy is to look at its past. However, the history of philosophy – both as a field of academic study and in more popular literature – tends to tell a rather narrow and parochial story. This story predominantly focuses on Europe to the exclusion of almost everywhere else. The shift away from such a bias has already begun, especially in the specialist history of philosophy literature, but there are still deeply Eurocentric assumptions built into the most influent…Read more
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42From the ‘History of Western Philosophy’ to entangled histories of philosophy: the Contribution of Ben KiesBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 31 (6): 1234-1259. 2023.The idea of ‘Western Philosophy’ is the product of a legitimation project for European colonialism, through to post-second world war Pan-European identity formation and white supremacist projects. Thus argues Ben Kies (1917-1979), a South African public intellectual, schoolteacher, trade unionist, and activist-theorist. In his 1953 address to the Teachers’ League of South Africa, The Contribution of the Non-European Peoples to World Civilisation, Kies became one of the first people to argue expl…Read more
Josh Platzky Miller
University of The Free State
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University of The Free StateRegular Faculty
Bloemfontein, FS, South Africa