Epistemology and Self-Bound Limitations on the Political Imagination
Ph. D candidate Godesulloh Bawa’s Youtube miniseries explores the shape of African philosophy readily intersected with politics through the examination of the language that structures epistemology. In saying “hunting difference is not the aim of philosophy,” Godesulloh raises deeper questions about the political outcomes of unquestioned epistemology. What thought processes are utilized, and what do they hide when employed? What is privileged by demarcating units of analysis like ‘Africa’ and ‘Europe’ and what do these distinctions imply for the practice of political theory?