6 - The ’Universal’ in science as a Dilemma for scholarship in Africa
Corresponding Author(s) : Olajide Oloyede
Identité, culture et politique,
Vol. 12 No 2 (2011): Identité, culture et politique: Un dialogue afro-asiatique
Résumé
L’universel dans les sciences, un dilemme pour la recherché en Afrique
La domination de la science occidentale dans la compréhension des réalités sociales en Afrique est largement reconnue. Les tentatives de contrebalancer cette domination perverse ont poussé les sciences sociales en particulier la sociologie, à progressivement admettre qu’il y a au moins deux domaines différents de la connaissance - scientifique et non scientifique. Ceux ci sont généralement pris en considération pour caractériser savoir occidental et connaissances non occidentales. L’idée qu’il existe des domaines de la connaissance pose en quelque sorte le problème de la relation entre la connaissance et la pertinence pour laquelle la préoccupation est avant tout de la pertinence des connaissances acquises dans la quête de la compréhension de notre monde pour l’action sociale. Ce problème de la différenciation entre connaissance et pertinence est celui de «l’universel». Cet article soutient que tel est le dilemme pour les sciences sociales en Afrique. Il revient sur l’histoire de la pensée occidentale pour mettre en avant le caractère durable des ‘outils’ de compréhension que les savants de l’Afrique (Africains et Européens) utilisent pour donner un sens au contexte africain dans le cadre de ce dilemme.
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Adam, B., Timescape of modernity, Routledge, London, 1998
Adesina, Jimi, O (2003) Sociology and Yoruba Studies: epistemic intervention or doing sociology in the vernacular
Alexander, J.C., Modern, Anti, Post and Neo, New Left Review, March/April, number 210, 1995:63-104
Condorcet, M., Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind, Translated by J. Barraclough, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1955
Halbfass, (1988)
Hegel, F (1900, 1955)
Kuhn, T.S., The Structure of Scientific Revolution, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1970
Le Bon, G., The Psychology of Peoples, G.E. Stechert, New York, 1894, 1912
Levi-Strauss, C., The Naked Man, Translated by. John Weightman and Doreen Weightman, Harper and Row, New Your, 1981
Levi-Strauss, C., Structural Anthropology, Translated by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf, Basic Books, New York, 1963
Levi-Strauss, C., Structural Anthropology, Vol. 2, Translated by Monique Layton, Basic Books, New York, 1976
Levi-Strauss, C., Tristes Tropique, Translated by John Weightman and Doreen Weightman, Atheneum, New York, 1974
Merchant, C., The death of nature, Harper Collins, San Fransisco, 1980
Merton, R.K., Sciences, Technology and Society in Seventh Century England, Howard Fertiz, New York, 1970
Oliver, A., “The metaphysics of properties”, Mind, January, 1996
Oloyede, O., “Mental illness in culture, Culture in mental illness: An anthropological view from South Africa”, Medische Anthropology, December, 2002
Pap, A., Elements of Analytic Philosophy, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1949
Rule, J.B., Theory and progress in Social Science, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997
Todorov, T., On Human Diversity: Nationalism, Racism and Exoticism in French Thought, Seconde printing, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1994