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PAULIN J. HOUNTONDJI (1942 - )

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• Anthologies:
  • Sur la Philosophie Africaine: Critique de l'ethnophilosophie.  Paris: Maspero, 1976. 
    • African Philosophy: Myth and Reality.  Trans. Henri Evans with the collaboration of Jonathan Rée.  London: Hutchinson, 1983.
• Edited Works:
  • Économie et société au Bénin: d'hier à demain.  Sous la dir. Paulin J. Hountondji ; préf. de Samir Amin. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000.
  • Les savoirs endogènes: pistes pour une recherche.  Paris: Karthala, 1994.  Endogenous Knowledge: Research Trails.  Dakar : CODESRIA, 1997.
  • Africa and the Problem of its Identity -- L'Afrique et le problème de son identité -- Afrika und das Problem seiner Identität.  Ed. Hountondji and Alwin Diemer.  1985. 
• Selected Individual Works:
  • The Struggle for Meaning: Reflections on Philosophy, Culture and Democracy in Africa.  Trans. John Conteh-Morgan.  Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 2002.
  • "Violence et langage: problèmes du passage à la démocratie." African Sociological Review 3.1 (1999): 56-74.
  • "Pour une pédagogie du changement."  Quest 10.2 (1996): 37-64.
  • "Producing Knowledge in Africa Today."  African Studies Review 38.3 (1995): 1-10.
  • "Démarginaliser."  Les Savoiris endogènes.  Dakar: CODESRIA, 1994.  1-34.
  • "Daily Life in Black Africa: Elements for a Critique."  The Surreptitious Speech: Presence Africaine and the Politics of Otherness, 1947-1982.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992.  344-364.
  • "Scientific Dependence in Africa Today."  Research in African Literatures 21.3 (1990): 5-15.
  • "The Particular and the Universal."  Sapina: Bulletin of the Society for African Philosophy in North America 2.2-3 (1989): 1-66.
  • "L'Appropriation collective du savoir: tâches nouvelles pour une politique scientifique."  Genève-Afrique = Geneva-Africa 26.1 (1988): 49-66.
  • "Langues Africaines et philosophie: l'Hypothèse relativiste."  Africa and the Problem of its Identity -- L'Afrique et le problème de son identité -- Afrika und das Problem seiner Identität.  Ed. Alwin Diemer and J. Paulin Hountondji.  1985.  75-88.
  • "Que peut la philosophie?"  Présence africaine 119 (1981): 47-71.
  • "Histoire d'un mythe."  Daho-Express 1411, May 10, 1974.  Rpt. Présence Africaine 91 (1974): .
    • "History of a Myth."  African Philosophy: Myth and Reality.  Trans. Henri Evans with the collaboration of Jonathan Rée.  London: Hutchinson, 1983.  47-54.
  • "Le Mythe d'une philosophie spontanée."  Cahiers philosophiques Africains 1 (1972): 107-144.
    • "The Myth of Spontaneous Philosophy."  Consequence 1 (1974): 11-38.
  • "African Philosophy, Myth and Reality."  Philosophical Association of Kenya, University of Nairobi, November 5, 1973.  Thought and Practice 1.2 (1974): 1-16.  Rpt. in African Philosophy: Myth and Reality.  Trans. Henri Evans with the collaboration of Jonathan Rée.  London: Hutchinson, 1983.  55-70.
  • "La Philosophie et ses révolutions."  Department of Philosophy, National University of Zaire, Lumumbashi, June 2, 1973.  Cahiers philosophiques Africains 3-4 (1973): 27-40.
    • "Philosophy and its Revolutions."  African Philosophy: Myth and Reality.  Trans. Henri Evans with the collaboration of Jonathan Rée.  London: Hutchinson, 1983.  71-107.
  • "Une Littérature aliénée."  Diogène (1969): .
    • "An Alienated Literature."  African Philosophy: Myth and Reality.  Trans. Henri Evans with the collaboration of Jonathan Rée.  London: Hutchinson, 1983.  33-46.

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  • Tempting Traditions: Internal Debate Needed in Traditional Cultures Compass Magazine (2001)

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