Identity politics/Reading Notes

[John St. Clair]

Rakesh writes:
> 1. African philosophy. A real Jesuit scholar, Y. Mudimbe has written some
> very helpful volumes. And I think what he has to say about Levy-Bruhl's
> theory of primitive mentality and Evan-Pritchard's witchcraft studies is
> thought-provoking. Sorry for no complete cites-- the books  are in my
> companion the professor's office. Suffice to say, there is a substantial
> body of philosophical work on the nature of anthropology and
> anthropological discourse (including a a study written in the analytical
> philosophical mode which is touted by Anthony Appiah). Ato Sekyi-Oto
> Fanon's Dialectic of Experience has been recommended to me, and Ernest
> Wambab-dia-Wamba's essays on the African palaver are interesting.
> If I remember correctly, John StC's collegue Kwasi Wiredu has written
> thoughtfully  about violence in African political thought; so I hope John
> keeps us abreast about the volume KW is editing.
Three things:
1. I've got a copy of Wiredu's article on African philosophy for the
upcoming (or is it out already?) Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. If
you want a copy, let me know--I'll email it to you off-list; it's really
excellent.
2. Correction: student, not collegue.
3. Frances is his assistant, so I'm sure her knowledge of the status of his
Cambridge Companion is more accurate than mine.

John

John St. Clair
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