2 - Eurocentrism and the Contemporary Social Sciences
Corresponding Author(s) : Lansana Keita
Afrique et développement,
Vol. 45 No 2 (2020): Afrique et développement
Résumé
Les sciences sociales contemporaines émergent en Occident à partir du XVIIIe siècle au fur et à mesure que se développent de nouvelles technologies et de nouveaux modes de recherche scientifique. Il est indéniable que les progrès technologiques ont mené au triomphe de l'empirisme sur la métaphysique. C'est la base de la transformation des nomenclatures de la philosophie naturelle et de la philosophie morale dans les sciences naturelles et les sciences morales, respectivement. Le succès des méthodologies empiristes des sciences naturelles a poussé les sciences sociales à imiter leurs techniques. Ainsi, il a été affirmé méthodologiquement que les sciences sociales et le compartimentage du monde social de leur division du travail reflétaient ce monde en termes objectivistes. Mais les humains étant eux-mêmes impliqués dans la description et l'explication des comportements d’autres humains signifiait qu'un élément subjectif serait toujours présent, à moins de sérieuses tentatives de correctifs cognitifs et d’un respect conscient de l'objectivité cohérente. Si la recherche en archéologie est relativement objective dans ses découvertes scientifiques, ce n'est pas le cas dans les autres sciences sociales, en particulier l'anthropologie et l'histoire. Il y a une création et une réification eurocentriques arbitraires des théories et des termes fondées sur des affirmations fantaisistes et non étayées sur le statut évolutif de l'homo sapiens africanus.
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Les références
Acemoglu, D. and Robinson, J., 2012, Why Nations Fail, New York: Random House.
Ake, C., 1995, Democracy and Development in Africa, Washington DC: Brookings Institute.
Amin, S., 1977, Unequal Development, New York: Monthly Review Press.
Amin, S., 1988, ‘The Construction of Eurocentric Culture’, in Amin, S., Eurocentrism, New York: Monthly Review Press.
Aristotle, 300 BC, 1927, Physiognomica, ed. E. S. Foster, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Aristotle, c. 300 BC, 1927, Problemata, ed. E. S. Foster, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cambridge History of Africa, 1975– 1986, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Diamond, J., 1997, Guns, Germs, and Steel, New York: W. W. Norton.
Diop, C. A. 1977, La Parente genetique de l’egyptien pharaonique des langues negro- africaines, Dakar: Nouvelles editions africaines.
Diop, C. A., 1987, Black Africa: The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State, Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books.
Easterly, W., 2006, The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done so Much Ill and so Little Good, New York: Penguin-Random House.
Ehret, C., 1995, Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic: Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Greenberg, D., 1963, The Languages of Africa, Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press.
Gobineau, A., 1853, 1966, The Inequality of the Races, Los Angeles: The Noontide Press.
Herodotus, 430 BC, 2004, The Histories, New York: Barnes and Noble.
Hegel, G. W., 1837, 2001, Lectures on the Philosophy of History, New York: Cambridge University Press.
Linnaeus, C. 1735, 1806, Systema Naturae, London: Lackington, Allen and Co.
Meinhof, C., 1912, Die Sprachen der Hamiten, Hamburg: L. Friederichsen & Co.
Nkrumah, K., 1963, Africa Must Unite,New York: Praeger Press.
Obenga, T. 1993, Origine commune de l’egyptienne ancient, du copte et langues negro- africaines – introduction a la linguistique africaine, Paris: L’Harmattan.
Petrie, F., 1896, Naquada and Ballas, London: Bernard Quaritch.
Pugach, S. 2012, Africa in Translation: A History of Colonial Linguistics in Germany and Beyond, 1815–1945, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Reinert, E. 2007, How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Countries Stay Poor, New York: Public Affairs.
Robbins, L., 1932, An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science, London: Macmillan.
Rowan, K., 2006, Meroitic: A Phonological Investigation. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Seligman, C. G., 1930, 1957, The Races of Africa, 3rd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Stringer, C., 2003, ‘Human Evolution out of Ethiopia’, Nature, Vol. 423, pp. 693–5.
Toynbee, A., 1934–1961, A Study of History, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Trevor-Roper, H., 1969, ‘The Past and the Present: History and Sociology’, The Past and the Present, Vol. 42, Issue No. 1, 3–17.
UNESCO General History of Africa, 1981–1993, Paris: UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).