The peer-reviewed Journal on African Philosophy (JAP) published an exciting special-issue that asks us to step outside our framework to respond to a different conceptual order. Issue 13, “Water, Wind and Sound: Philosophy in a Different Key” is guest-edited by Nkiru Nzegwu, Professor of Africana Studies at Binghamton University. This issue pivots by asking us to think how we understand philosophy, and the ways we can study philosophy. In this beautifully crafted editorial statement, Professor Nzegwu asks:
“The dominant view of philosophy installed a regime of truth that limits what philosophy could be. But what if that view is no longer ascendant? What if we step outside its influences that for decades have exerted control on our thoughts, imagination, and beliefs? Seriously, what if we forgot about Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Hussel, Heidegger, and all those famous names? What if we do not seek their thoughts, because our thoughts, words, and languages are responding to a different conceptual order? How would we philosophize and engage our world—water, wind and sound?” — Nkiru Nzegwu
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