La Notion De Normal En Psychologie Clinique Introd A Une Critique Des Fondements Theoriques De La Psychotherapie

Author : Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509551409
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Scent of the Father written by Valentin-Yves Mudimbe and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-11-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valentin-Yves Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, essayist, and academic, widely considered to be one of the most important African thinkers of his generation. The ideas and arguments he has developed in his writings since the 1970s, including The Invention of Africa, have been hugely influential across many disciplines and established his reputation as one of the essential postcolonial thinkers of our time. In The Scent of the Father, Mudimbe set himself the task of shedding light on the complex links that bind Africa to the West and determine the exercise of thought and knowledge practices, particularly in relation to the social sciences. For Africa to escape the West, says Mudimbe, it must become aware of what remains Western in the very concepts and forms of thought that allow it to think against the West, and be alert to the possibility that the recourse against the West might be just another ruse that the West uses for its own ends. Africa must elucidate the modalities of the integration of Africans into the myths of the West, while at the same time aiming at the readaptation of the African psyche in the wake of the violence it has suffered. This seminal work by a leading African thinker will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the legacies of colonialism and the debates on decolonization and decoloniality in the social and human sciences.