Concentrated discipline occasional FE/Unicamp – FE 196 class A: Concentrated Special Seminar I “Bantu, Munthu, Ubuntu and Intermunthu: categories for a dialogue with Afro-Brazilian philosophies
Credits: 01
Time working: 15h
Offering period: February 18-21, 2025 (Tuesday-Friday)
Time: 14h to 18h
Location: room ED04 – annex building 1 (1st floor)
Regular Student Vacancies: 50
Special Student Vacancies: 50
The course will be offered in a hybrid format and will be broadcast on the FE YouTube channel.
Visiting Professor: Prof. José Paulino Castiano (Pedagogical University of Maputo/Mozambique).
Abstract: Modern and Enlightenment philosophy placed itself at the center of authority to define the so-called universal vision of the worldview and human historicity. With the intention of fighting, but ultimately confirming, the so-called universality, Tempels (1945) ended up “inventing” the Bantu category in African Philosophy. Hountondji, by elaborating a “critique of unanimism” and Boulaga by declaring Bantu Philosophy as a manifestation of a Crisis of Munthu, paved the way for Munthu Philosophy, that is, for philosophical reflection of and from the African as the subject of its historicity, ethics and epistemicity. The reopening, with the liberation movements, of the African subject as the owner of its historicity, ethics and epistemicity, in turn made possible the re-emergence of Inter-Munthu, as a subject in an increasingly global, more intercultural and more intersubjective society. And it is in this condition of Inter-Munthu – and this is the main thesis of the module – that the conditions and possibilities of diasporic dialogues open up, including with Afro-Brazilian Africanities. However, underlying the peripheral condition of our historicity (enslaved mainly in the Americas, colonized in Africa and “underdeveloped”, in fact “poor”, today) the affirmation of the category of Inter-Munthu is not so much about exchanging our ancestries and pasts, but rather our “struggles” of today and tomorrow.
Enrollment Guidelines:
Regular students: fill out the registration form and send it signed to the email educacao@unicamp.br by 04/02/2025 without fail, with the subject: Registration for the subject FE196.
Special students: fill out the form available at the link:
https://www.dac.unicamp.br/sistemas/formularios/inscricao_disciplinas_eventuais_pos_aut.php
send the signed form + graduation diploma (front and back) to the email educacao@unicamp.br until 04/02/2025 without fail.
NOTE: MP students are considered special.
Questions exclusively by email educacao@unicamp.br
