This article presents a possible method to engage African thought from a Western context. It does so by first showing the need for such an engagement by arguing that philosophical research is dominated by Western normativity: in phenomenology, for example, questions and answers gathered in this method more often than not ignore other cultures and perspectives, thus yielding results that only reflect a Western historico-cultural context. In order to open this normativity to other encounters, this article presents a dialogue between Ricoeur’s hermeneutic phenomenological method and Serequeberhan’s African hermeneutics. The upshot of this dialogue is that it presents a way for thinkers in a Western context to engage African thought without dominating or otherwise “recolonising” said thought.

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诠释学，历史和d'oùparlez vous？Paul Ricoeur和Tsenay Serequeberhan谈如何从西方环境中吸收非洲哲学

本文提出了一种可能的方法，可以从西方背景吸收非洲思想。这样做首先是通过争论哲学研究受西方规范性支配来表明进行这种参与的必要性：例如，在现象学中，以这种方法收集的问题和答案常常不忽略其他文化和观点，从而得出结果。仅反映了西方的历史文化背景。为了将这种规范性开放给其他遭遇，本文提出了理高的诠释学现象学方法与塞里克伯汉的非洲诠释学之间的对话。这次对话的结果是，它为西方背景下的思想家提供了一种在不支配或以其他方式“重新殖民化”所述思想的情况下参与非洲思想的方式。