Module code | FIL 210 |
Qualification | Undergraduate |
Faculty | Faculty of Humanities |
Module content | This module engages the historical emergence of modern African philosophy in relation to the Western canon. The first module traces the history of modern western philosophy as the history of different conceptions of First Philosophy – from the claim that it is epistemology (Aristotle through eg. Kant and Hegel), to ontology (eg Heidegger), to the ethical (eg. Levinas) to the claim that it is the political (eg Grosfoguel, Mignolo). The second module traces the historical process through which the modern African subject is constituted in a struggle for recognition with reference to the work of theorists such as Hegel, Du Bois, Fanon and others. |
Module credits | 20.00 |
Programmes | |
Service modules | Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology |
Prerequisites | At least one of FIL 110, 120 |
Contact time | 1 discussion class per week, 2 lectures per week |
Language of tuition | Separate classes for Afrikaans and English |
Department | Philosophy |
Period of presentation | Semester 1 |
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