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Korassi Téwéché

Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Department of Philosophy
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  • Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Department of Philosophy
    Doctoral student
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    Zur Banalität des Wahnsinns (On the banality of madness)
    Based on a philosophical reflection on the murder of the young Senegalese Mohamed Lamine Dramé by the police on 8 August 2022, this essay argues for the urgent need to free the human mind from madness and the social violence it generates. But how can this be achieved if not by constantly learning to rediscover the organic truth of our daily human experience as a precondition for social reform? The lecture was given during the workshop 'Racism in Enlightenment Philosophy: Consequences for Theory …Read more
  •  25
    Die Kultur und ihr Wahnsinn (The Madness of Culturalism)
    This lecture addresses the conditions for a new human consciousness, one that is free from the constraints of culturalism and its ad hoc avatars, including multiculturalism, interculturalism and transculturalism. The argument put forth is that in order for human beings to re-discover the infinite potential of their consciousness, it is necessary to make a conscious decision to disenchant with the fetishism of culture.
  •  111
    Die Entscheidung: Zum Rassismus in der Philosophie. (The Decision: On racism in Philosophy. )
    Es gibt keine allgemeingültige Antwort auf die Frage: Wie soll man Kants rassistische Texte lesen? Statt über Worte und Begriffe zu diskutieren, müssen wir einander kennenlernen. Wir müssen uns selbst verändern. Diese Art des Lesens nenne ich organische Philosophie. Im Grunde geht es darum, eine neue Art des Philosophierens zu erproben, die über Systeme und Konzepte, Phantasien und Träume hinausgeht. All das fordert Mut.
    Racism
  •  80
    Time For Justice
    This lecture, held at the Earth System Governance annual meeting in Nimedjin, Holland (2023), aims to answer the question of how to reconceptualise planetary justice in a radically new way. The approach of organic philosophy combines an awareness of time, of the bond between life and death, beyond the boundaries of physical geography or the fantasy of cultural differences.
    Justice
  •  65
    Le postcolonialisme expliqué à ma fille.
    Seneplus. 2022.
    Utilisant le style de la métaphore, cette méditation voudrait cerner l'intuition originelle du paradigme postcolonial. Au-delà de tout apologétisme, le but est de poser les jalons d'une pensée débarassée du fardeau de l'historicisme. Le postcolonialisme a légitimement dit ce qu'il avait à dire. Sa critique, quoique pertinente, montre désormais ses limites. Explorer de nouveaux chemins de la connaissance, voila le role de la pensée à venir.
  •  60
    Où va l'art africain ? Défétichisez les restitutions.
    Seneplus. 2022.
    This philosophical meditation on the issue of the restitution of African art objects stolen during colonisation explores new meanings of contemporary aesthetics in Africa: the radical openness of consciousness towards the present, the absolute value of the living over the creations of the mind, the transcendence of intelligence and freedom over History...
  •  74
    Qu'est-ce que l'Afroplanétarisme?
    Seneplus 2022 (08). 2022.
    Neither the burden of our tragic memory nor the secular illusions of History and its many fetishes can hold back human consciousness from rediscovering peace and lucidity. The assiduous exercise of intelligence, heart and will is the absolute condition for the individual and collective freedom of our peoples. The concept of Afroplanetarianism that I am proposing reveals a simple intuition: by exercising one's intelligence every day, people in Africa and the rest of the world will rediscover the …Read more
  •  78
    L'Etre-au-monde du Muntu ou l'épreuve de la différance: exil, transcendance et verité.
    Raison Ardente 1 (N°91): 16-28. 2012.
    Il est question dans cette méditation métaphysique d'examiner l'horizon de la vérité de notre condition humaine terrestre. Par-dela les révélations du langage, il s'agit de penser la réalité organique de la 'différance' au sein du réel. La transcendance des formes historiques contingentes, et l'ouverture silencieuse à la réalité absolue du possible, se manifestent comme la signification de la différance. Ils sont la vérité organique de toute vie humaine épanouie, l'ultime et inexorable condition…Read more
  •  128
    Afroplanetarismus als Friedensphilosophie. (Afroplanetarianism as a Philosophy of Peace)
    Wissenschaft Und Frieden 2023 (40 Jahre W&F). 2023.
    How to build peace after the horrors of colonialism? This essay discusses the assumption that the prerequisite for an emancipation of the postcolonial subject is the transcendence of historicism. From the perspective of organic philosophy and Afroplanetarianism, the paper suggests a new way of understanding and conceptualising the individual and collective existence of humankind on a new basis, i.e. beyond the single factor of History.
  •  137
    De-fetishizing restitutions! On the Ethical Stakes of Restitutions Debate (2nd ed.)
    Forum Wissenschaft 2 35-38. 2023.
    This article discusses the ethical contours of the restitutions debate. It questions the validity of the concept of restitution. Korassi Téwéché argues that the ultimate subject of restitutions is the being of the artist and his rights.