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From 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
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The 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
Josh Platzky Miller
University of The Free State
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University of The Free StateRegular Faculty
Bloemfontein, FS, South Africa