V. Y. Mudimbe
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Valentin-Yves Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, professor, and author of poems, novels, as well as books and articles on African culture and intellectual history. Mudimbe is Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of Romance Studies and professor of comparative literature at Duke University and maître de conferences at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.
V. Y. Mudimbe's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge (1989) (1574)
- The Idea of Africa (1994) (486)
- African Philosophy, Myth and Reality (1983) (236)
- Africa and the disciplines : the contributions of research in Africa to the social sciences and humanities (1994) (107)
- African Gnosis: Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge (1985) (99)
- Africans' Memories and Contemporary History of Africa (1993) (67)
- The Powers of Presence. Consciousness, Myth, and Affecting Presence (1981) (59)
- The Surreptitious speech : Présence africaine and the politics of otherness, 1947-1987 (1995) (57)
- Parables and Fables: Exegesis, Textuality, and Politics in Central Africa (1991) (47)
- Black Orpheus (2021) (40)
- Tales of faith : Religion as political performance in Central Africa (2000) (37)
- African Philosophy as an Ideological Practice: The Case of French–Speaking Africa (1983) (35)
- Historians and africanist history - a critique (1981) (34)
- African Art as a Question Mark (1986) (27)
- The Impact of African Studies on Philosophy (2003) (22)
- African Athena?@@@Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 1, the Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985.@@@Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 2, The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence. (1992) (21)
- An African criticism of Christianity (1983) (18)
- The Intellectual and Apartheid (2002) (18)
- Globalization and African Identity (2003) (16)
- October : The Second Decade, 1986-1996 (1997) (16)
- Barry Hallen and J.O. Sodipo, "Knowledge, Belief and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy." Reviewed by (1987) (15)
- The invention of Africa: prognosis, philosophy and the order of knowlegde (1988) (13)
- Africa and the Disciplines: The Contributions of Research in Africa to the Social Sciences and Humanities (1995) (12)
- Le Bel immonde (1978) (10)
- Liberty in African and western thought (1988) (9)
- Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies II (2003) (7)
- Africa and the Disciplines: The Contribution of Research in Africa to the Social Sciences and the Humanities (1994) (7)
- Negritude Women (2021) (6)
- History Making in Africa (1993) (6)
- Nations, identities, cultures (1997) (6)
- Letters of Reference@@@Theories of Africans: Francophone Literature and Anthropology in Africa.@@@Conquerants de la nuit nue: Edouard Glissant et l'H(h)istoire antillaise. (1991) (5)
- Which Idea of Africa? Herskovits's Cultural Relativism (1990) (5)
- Truth and Falsehood: Fetish, Magic, and Custom in European and African Art (1993) (5)
- Hegel's Reception in France (1994) (5)
- Philosophy of Religion on African Ways of Believing (2012) (5)
- Parables and fables (1991) (5)
- More on “African Art and Authenticity” (1992) (4)
- Meeting the Challenge of Legitimacy: Post-Independence Black African and Post-Soviet European States (1995) (4)
- Race and Science@@@The Racial Economy of Science: Towards a Democratic Future. (1994) (4)
- For Said@@@Culture and Imperialism. (1994) (3)
- The Politics of War: a Meditation (2000) (2)
- Before the birth of the moon (1989) (2)
- Where is the Real Thing? Psychoanalysis and African Mythical Narratives (1987) (2)
- Contemporary African Cultural Productions (2013) (2)
- Congo in België (2016) (2)
- The Impact of African Studies on the Disciplines (2003) (2)
- From “primitive art” to “memoriae loci” (1993) (2)
- Epilogue: In the Name of Similitude (2009) (1)
- Diaspora and Immigration (1997) (1)
- L'Écart@@@L'Ecart (1991) (1)
- What is a line ? 1 On paradoxes about allegories of identity and alterity by (2009) (1)
- The Power of the Greek Paradigm (1993) (1)
- Two Colonial Precursors (2002) (1)
- The Re-invention of Africa : (2017) (1)
- Ntu Philosophers 1950–1970 (2021) (0)
- Kagame, Alexis (2021) (0)
- Conceptual Translation (2021) (0)
- Race: In Disciplines and Politics (2021) (0)
- Et Nunc... Per Hoc Signum: A Meditation on Genitives in Everyday Life Stories (2009) (0)
- Lex perfecta, praecepta recta: Mediteren over bemiddelen (2009) (0)
- Conjunctural Knowledge I: Structures of Order, 1945–1968 (2003) (0)
- A Rose by Any Other Name? The Wide World and Many Modes of Cultural Studies (2003) (0)
- Conclusion: “Don’t Forget to Tell Us What Happened to You Yourself . . .” (2002) (0)
- The Politics of Culture II: Tensions of Continuity, 1790–1968 (2003) (0)
- Mulago, Vincent (2021) (0)
- A Meditation of the Convener (2012) (0)
- Recovering the Obvious – Race and Mental Health (2019) (0)
- The Near Future of the Long Term: A Bricoleur’s World (2003) (0)
- Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy (1993) (0)
- Is God Neutral?@@@Preach Liberty: Selections from the Bible for Progressives.@@@An African Tree of Life.@@@Nicaragua's Other Revolution. Religious Faith and Political Struggle.@@@My Faith as an African.@@@The Missionary and the Diviner.@@@Universite et Conscience Chretienne: Pages d'un Bloc-Notes de (1992) (0)
- African Theology As A Political Praxis : Vincent Mulago and The Catholic Theological Discourse : 1950-1980 (1988) (0)
- Introduction: Complicity, the Intellectual, Apartheid (2002) (0)
- Sodipo, John Olubi (2021) (0)
- Harlem Renaissance and Negritude (2021) (0)
- Appiah, Anthony Kwame (2021) (0)
- The Jewish Diaspora, Israel, and Jewish Identities: A Dialogue (1999) (0)
- Tempels, Placide (2021) (0)
- I as an Other: Sartre and Lévi-Strauss Or an (Im)-possible Dialogue on the Cogito (1988) (0)
- The Politics of Culture I: Limits of Possibilities, 1945–1968 (2003) (0)
- In the House of LibyaA Meditation (2011) (0)
- African Theology: Manifestoes and Positions 1960–1980 (2021) (0)
- RACE, IDENTITY, POLITICS AND HISTORY (2000) (0)
- In The House of Libya: A Meditation (2009) (0)
- African Philosophy Incipit (2021) (0)
- Pour Jacques Howlett (1983) (0)
- Jewsiewicki, B. & Létourneau, J. eds, - Mode of Production : The Challenge of Africa / Mode de production : les défis africains (1985) (0)
- Apartheid and the Vernacular (2002) (0)
- Conjunctural Knowledge II: Patterns of Disarray, 1968 and After (2003) (0)
- African Philosophy: An Existence De Facto (1985) (0)
- V.Y. Mudimbe (2017) (0)
- [Therapeutic signs and prose of life in black Africa]. (1981) (0)
- Great expectations: boys Catholic mission schooling and constructions of 'race' and identity in Zambia (2013) (0)
- Niam M’Paya. Alle fonti di un pensiero africano (2009) (0)
- Race (Fallacy of Race) (2021) (0)
- Placide Tempels and african philosophy (1986) (0)
- David J. Gould (1943–1988) (1988) (0)
- “Masques aux quatre points”: A Meditation (2010) (0)
- Intercultural Philosophy (2021) (0)
- Word and World: Luba Thought and Literature. JACQUES A. THEUWS (1985) (0)
- The Mudimbe Reader (2016) (0)
- Akan Philosophy (2021) (0)
- Within Silence: A Meditation (2010) (0)
- Charles, Pierre (2021) (0)
- Colonial Library (2021) (0)
- Papal Bulls (2021) (0)
- Mushete, Alphonse Ngindu (2021) (0)
- Crahay, Franz (2021) (0)
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