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Kant in Africa and Africa in Kant


Call for Publications

Theme: Kant in Africa and Africa in Kant
Subtitle: Critical Philosophy in African Culture and Thought
Publication: Estudos Kantianos
Date: Thematic Issue (2022)
Deadline: 31.8.2021



Immanuel Kant devotes his thought to the diversity and unity of
humanity both in the natural and cultural domains, especially through
the foundation or, at least, renovation, of two complementary
disciplines: Geography and Anthropology. Thinking of Africa based on
Kantian philosophy is an exercise that exposes essential tensions,
inherent in questioning the meaning of universality and
particularity, as well as its relations. From the angle of the
critical power of human intelligence, one can find Kantian resonances
in the ideas of freedom and liberation that animate all contemporary
African cultural expressions, with an anti- and post-colonial
outlook, from politics to the arts, through religion, law, economy
and education. However, simultaneously, the Aufklärung that Kant
announces and lives, is located in European history, in the mutation
of Modernity whose passion for the Universal remains deeply anchored
in the concrete body of 18th-century Europe divided between Feudalism
and Liberalism, but always inclined towards physical and spiritual
possession of the world, aimed at the expansion of its Faith and its
Empire, identifying the apex of the supposedly progressive history of
humanity with its Logos and its civilizing Ethos. Therefore, Kant's
German-Christian Eurocentrism is a constitutive position that
challenges the self-critical power of all Critical Reason. Moreover,
if Kant rejects and disapproves of colonial violence as a war of
aggression that destroys the conditions of perpetual peace, offending
Cosmopolitan Justice, he remains nevertheless permeable to
Eurocentric stereotypes that represent the character of black
otherness and its cultural creations, oscillating between a
hierarchical and an egalitarian view of humanity's ethnic-racial
differences.

With the launch of this thematic issue, we intend to stimulate the
reevaluation and reinterpretation of Kantian thought, taking African
culture and history as the guiding thread of the questioning,
practicing an “African way” of critical intelligence, destabilizing
the Copernican Revolution of the critical subject with the
inscription expression of African otherness in the plural
subjectivity of humanity. We invite the submission of philosophical
research papers that may interdisciplinary relationships with all
scientific areas that exhibit the vital interests of theoretical and
practical reason (with special emphasis on epistemology, ethics,
politics, aesthetics, theology and anthropology). Thus, we aim to
enrich the mutual understanding between the cultures of Africa and
Europe, so disturbed by consecutive centuries of multidimensional,
physical and symbolic violence. Through critical hermeneutics and
conceptual innovation, we will be able to reimagine and experience
other ways of feeling and other categories of intelligence, as well
as other purposes, more capable of dynamizing freedom in the
composition of the Common Good.

By inviting the academic community to participate in this thematic
issue, we intend to stimulate the reevaluation and reinterpretation
of Kantian thought, taking African culture and history as the guiding
thread of our common research, and thereby practicing an ‘African
mode’ of critical intelligence, in order to destabilize and broaden
the Copernican Revolution of the critical subject with the concrete
inscription of African otherness in the plural subjectivity of
humanity. We invite the submission of philosophical original articles
that may establish interdisciplinary relationships with all
scientific areas that exhibit the vital interests of theoretical and
practical reason, with special emphasis on epistemology, ethics,
politics, aesthetics, theology and anthropology. Thus, we aim to
enrich the mutual understanding between the cultures of Africa and
Europe, so disturbed by consecutive centuries of multidimensional,
physical and symbolic violence. Through critical hermeneutics and
conceptual innovation, we will be able to reimagine and experience
other ways of feeling and other categories of intelligence, as well
as to envision other goals and purposes, more capable of dynamizing
freedom in the composition of the Common Good.

Text submissions should be made on the journal's website until August
31, 2021:
https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/ek/user/register

Papers written in German, Spanish, French, English, Italian and
Portuguese are accepted, typed in 12 Times New Roman font, size 12,
spacing 1.5 and maximum length of approximately 30 pages. Notes in
the text must be presented at the end of the text, after the list of
References, in size 10 and with single spacing. Quotations longer
than three lines should be typed in size 11, with simple spacing and
indentation to the left of 4 cm. When the article is written in
Spanish, Italian or Portuguese, the bio-bibliographic note, abstract
and keywords should be bilingual, including also a translation into
English. Quotations and references should follow the specific norms
of the Brazilian Association of Technical Norms [ABNT]; respectively:
ABNT / NBR 10520/2002 and ABNT / NBR 6023/2002 (see an abridged
version on the journal’s website).​

Scientific and Editorial Coordination:

Inácio Valentim (ISPSN, Huambo, Angola)
Marita Rainsborough (Leuphana University, Germany)
Paulo Jesus (University of Lisbon, Portugal)


Journal website:
https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/ek/