{"id":75,"date":"2024-06-15T16:06:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T14:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leshco-ecoledoctorale.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2024-11-24T00:59:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T23:59:04","slug":"paulin-hountondji-le-penseur-qui-a-defriche-la-reflexion-sur-la-philosophie-africaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leshco-ecoledoctorale.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/15\/paulin-hountondji-le-penseur-qui-a-defriche-la-reflexion-sur-la-philosophie-africaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulin Hountondji, le penseur qui a d\u00e9frich\u00e9 la r\u00e9flexion sur la philosophie africaine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le philosophe b\u00e9ninois&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paulin_J._Hountondji\">Paulin Hountondji<\/a>, d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le 2 f\u00e9vrier 2024 \u00e0 l&#8217;\u00e2ge de 82 ans, a eu le courage de s&#8217;\u00e9lever contre la tentation \u00e0 laquelle c\u00e9daient beaucoup de penseurs africains, \u00e0 la suite du R\u00e9v\u00e9rend&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.presenceafricaine.com\/187_tempels-placide\">P\u00e8re Tempels<\/a>, de modifier la d\u00e9finition de la philosophie pour permettre aux africains de s&#8217;en attribuer une. Dans son livre&nbsp;<em>La Philosophie Bantou<\/em>, le P\u00e8re Placide Tempels affirmait en effet d\u00e9couvrir une philosophie africaine. Beaucoup d&#8217;intellectuels africains de son \u00e9poque le c\u00e9l\u00e9braient et saluaient son livre comme fondateur de la philosophie africaine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paradoxalement, Tempels fut intronis\u00e9 par ces penseurs nationalistes comme \u201cp\u00e8re de la philosophie africaine\u201d alors m\u00eame qu\u2019il \u00e9crit noir sur blanc dans son livre que son objectif est de mieux comprendre les bantous afin d\u2019accompagner le projet colonial et de mieux accomplir la pr\u00e9tendue mission civilisatrice de l&#8217;Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">C\u2019est contre le consensus qui c\u00e9l\u00e9brait Tempels et se pla\u00e7ait d\u00e9votement sous son ombre tut\u00e9laire que Paulin Hountondji a eu le courage de s&#8217;\u00e9lever. Hountondji sera \u00e9galement, dans les ann\u00e9es 9o un des pionniers de la recherche \u00e9pist\u00e9mologique sur les savoirs endog\u00e8nes. Premier africain admis en philosophie \u00e0 la prestigieuse \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure de la rue d\u2019Ulm \u00e0 Paris en 1963, il est l&#8217;un des philosophes les plus influents d&#8217;Afrique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paradoxalement, son courage lui a valu d\u2019\u00eatre trait\u00e9, entre autres, de \u201cblanc\u201d par ses d\u00e9tracteurs qui voyaient en lui un \u00e9litiste d\u00e9sireux d\u2019en r\u00e9f\u00e9rer aux normes europ\u00e9ennes plut\u00f4t que d\u2019accepter les sp\u00e9cificit\u00e9s philosophiques africaines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Il est vrai que Hountondji a suivi un parcours d\u2019\u00e9lite. Il est n\u00e9 en 1942 \u00e0 Abidjan, en C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, dans une famille protestante et d\u00e9j\u00e0 cosmopolite. Admis \u00e0 la prestigieuse \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure de la Rue d&#8217;Ulm, il y travaille avec des philosophes exceptionnels comme Derrida, Althusser et Canguilhem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apr\u00e8s Normale Sup\u2019, il soutient \u00e0 Nanterre en 1970, une th\u00e8se de doctorat de troisi\u00e8me cycle sur le th\u00e8me : \u201cL&#8217;id\u00e9e de science dans les prol\u00e9gom\u00e8nes et la 1\u00e8re recherche logique de Husserl\u201d. Une th\u00e8se dirig\u00e9e par nul autre que Paul Ricoeur, un des plus grands\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cairn.info\/revue-recherche-en-soins-infirmiers-2005-2-page-21.htm#:%7E:text=La%20ph%C3%A9nom%C3%A9nologie%20est%20un%20courant,le%20sujet%20qui%20la%20vit.\">ph\u00e9nom\u00e9nologues<\/a>\u00a0du 20e si\u00e8cle. Avant et apr\u00e8s sa th\u00e8se, Hountondji a enseign\u00e9 la philosophie dans les universit\u00e9s de Besan\u00e7on, de Kinshasa et de Lubumbashi avant de revenir au B\u00e9nin o\u00f9 il a non seulement enseign\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019universit\u00e9 d\u2019Abomey Calavi mais \u00e9galement jou\u00e9 un r\u00f4le pr\u00e9\u00e9minent dans le processus de d\u00e9mocratisation du pays et occup\u00e9 des\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/codesria.org\/fr\/paulin-j-hountondji-1942-2024-hommage-a-un-grand-penseur\/\">postes minist\u00e9riels<\/a>. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 ministre de l\u2019Education de 1990 \u00e0 1991, puis de ministre de la Culture et de la Communication de 1991 \u00e0 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/paulin-hountondji-le-penseur-qui-a-defriche-la-reflexion-sur-la-philosophie-africaine-222722\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/paulin-hountondji-le-penseur-qui-a-defriche-la-reflexion-sur-la-philosophie-africaine-222722<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le philosophe b\u00e9ninois&nbsp;Paulin Hountondji, d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le 2 f\u00e9vrier 2024 \u00e0 l&#8217;\u00e2ge de 82 ans, a eu le courage de s&#8217;\u00e9lever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leshco-ecoledoctorale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leshco-ecoledoctorale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leshco-ecoledoctorale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leshco-ecoledoctorale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leshco-ecoledoctorale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/leshco-ecoledoctorale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/leshco-ecoledoctorale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leshco-ecoledoctorale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leshco-ecoledoctorale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leshco-ecoledoctorale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}