Answering the question, "What remains of enlightenment?"

Human Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 281-288

  Eze, Emmanuel C ^a  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0141563215     PISSN: 01638548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020179104026     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. Vincent Potter, Readings in Epistemology: from Aquinas, Bacon, Galileo, Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant (New York: Fordham University Press, 1993), p. xii.
2. Potter, Readings, p. xii.
3. Patrick J, Ryan, S.J., Sailing Beyond the Horizon, America, May 23, 1998, pp. 14-24; p. 15.
4. St. Augustine, City of God, tram. Marcus Dods, in Works of Augustine, Edinburgh, 1934; II, pp. 118-119; Bk. Xvi, chapter 9.
5. St. Augustine, City of God, tram. Marcus Dods, in Works of Augustine, Edinburgh, 1934; II, pp. 118-119; Bk. Xvi, chapter 9.
6. "'Savage,' from the late latin silvaticus ... is equivalent to marginality and, from a cultural normative space, designates the uncultivated." V.Y. Mudimbe, The Idea of Africa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), p. 27.
7. For Husserl: "In the spiritual sense, it is clear that to Europe belong the English dominions, the United States, etc., but not, however, the Eskimos or Indians, or the Gypsies. Clearly, the title Europe designates the unity of a spiritual life and a creative activity with all its aims, interests, cares, and troubles, with its plans, its establishments, its institutions. I mean we feel that in our European humanity there is an innate entelechy that ... gives to it the sense of a development in the direction of an ideal image of life and of being, as moving toward an eternal pole." The Crisis (New York: Harper, 1965). It seems to me perfectly understandable that some Europeans should feel a racial mission that excludes anyone other than the white; what is incomprehensible however is the economocally-motivated conceptual and political refusal to entertain the idea that the non-white might just equally already feel or wish to develop feelings of coincident or different "entechy" or dreams of eternity. Hence, for Heideger: "Nature has its history. But then Negroes would also have history. Or does nature then have not history? It can enter into the past as something transitory, but not everything that fades away enters into history." See Eze, Postcolonial African Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997).
8. For Husserl: "In the spiritual sense, it is clear that to Europe belong the English dominions, the United States, etc., but not, however, the Eskimos or Indians, or the Gypsies. Clearly, the title Europe designates the unity of a spiritual life and a creative activity with all its aims, interests, cares, and troubles, with its plans, its establishments, its institutions. I mean we feel that in our European humanity there is an innate entelechy that ... gives to it the sense of a development in the direction of an ideal image of life and of being, as moving toward an eternal pole." The Crisis (New York: Harper, 1965). It seems to me perfectly understandable that some Europeans should feel a racial mission that excludes anyone other than the white; what is incomprehensible however is the economocally-motivated conceptual and political refusal to entertain the idea that the non-white might just equally already feel or wish to develop feelings of coincident or different "entechy" or dreams of eternity. Hence, for Heideger: "Nature has its history. But then Negroes would also have history. Or does nature then have not history? It can enter into the past as something transitory, but not everything that fades away enters into history." See Eze, Postcolonial African Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997).
9. Willibald Clinké, Kant for Everyman, trans. Michael Bullock (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1952), p. 22.
10. Arendt, in a series of lectures delivered at the New School, and published in her Kant's Political Theories, p. 7.
11. See J.A. May, Kant's Concept of Geography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970), p. 4.
12. E. Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983), pp. 77-78.