Philosophy in an African Place

Over the past few decades, there has been much effect put forth by philosophers to answer the question, "Is there an African philosophy?" In Philosophy in an African Place, Bruce B. Janz boldly changes this central question to "What is to do philosophy in this (African) place?" Janz argues that African philosophy has spent a lot of trying to define what African philosophy is, and in doing so has ironically been unable to properly conceptualize, African lived experience. He goes on to claim that such conceptualization can only occur when the central question is changed from the spatial to a new, platial one.

Bruce B. Janz is chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida.