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Heinz Kimmerle’s intercultural philosophy and the quest for epistemic justice
The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa ( IF 0.2 ) Pub Date : 2019-05-28 , DOI: 10.4102/td.v15i1.554
Renate Schepen , Anke Graness

Since the 1990s epistemic (in)justice has been a central issue of post-colonial and feminist studies. But only during the last decade the term has become paradigmatic and new aspects of the issue have been addressed – particularly because of the works of De Sousa Santos (2012, 2014) and Fricker (2007) . One of the pioneers of an intercultural approach to philosophy is the German philosopher Heinz Kimmerle (1930 – 2016) , who in the 1980s began to focus his research on African philosophies. Intercultural philosophy aimed for more epistemic justice in the academy long before the term epistemic or cognitive injustice was coined and became a new paradigm in the social sciences and humanities. Kimmerle, for example, was one of the main proponents of a radical reform of the Eurocentric curricula in academic philosophy, and he called for the inclusion of philosophical traditions from various regions of the world. Similarities in the starting point of research and research questions in philosophy and post- or decolonial studies, and proposed solutions to epistemic injustice in these disciplines, give enough reason to combine the social sciences’ theories of epistemic justice with the methods of intercultural philosophy for a reciprocal cultural enrichment between these disciplines. This article shows that theories of ‘epistemic justice’ could benefit from Heinz Kimmerle’s method of dialogue and reflective listening. Similarly, insights derived from post-colonial, decolonial and feminist theory could strengthen an awareness of structural power inequalities in intercultural philosophy. Therefore, we explore how theories of epistemic justice and intercultural philosophy can complement each other.

中文翻译:

亨氏·基默尔(Heinz Kimmerle)的跨文化哲学和对认知正义的追求

自1990年代以来,认识论(正义)一直是后殖民主义和女权主义研究的中心问题。但是,仅在最近十年中,该术语才成为范式,并且解决了该问题的新方面,特别是由于De Sousa Santos(2012,2014)和Fricker(2007)的著作。德国哲学家海因茨·基默尔(Heinz Kimmerle,1930年至2016年)是跨文化哲学研究的先驱之一,他在1980年代开始将研究重点放在非洲哲学上。跨文化哲学的目的是要在学术界建立更多的认识论正义,早在认识论或认知不公正一词被创造出来并成为社会科学和人文科学的新范式之前。例如,基默尔(Kimmerle)是对以哲学为中心的欧洲中心课程进行彻底改革的主要支持者之一,他呼吁纳入世界各地的哲学传统。哲学和后殖民时代研究的起点和研究问题的相似之处,以及这些学科中对认识论不公正的解决方案,为将社会科学的认识论正义理论与跨文化哲学方法相结合提供了足够的理由。这些学科之间相互的文化丰富。本文表明,“流行病正义”理论可以从亨氏·基默尔的对话和反思性聆听方法中受益。同样,从后殖民主义,非殖民主义和女权主义理论得出的见解可以增强人们对跨文化哲学中的结构性权力不平等的认识。因此,
更新日期:2019-05-28
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