CFP

[amara esther]

Dear colleagues,
Greetings.

I am sharing the CFP below on behalf of a colleague. If you are interested, please email Prof Louise Müller at louise...@live.co.uk.

Dear colleagues in African philosophy and the arts, 

 

For the contracted academic book project titled ‘The End of Herstoricide. The Voices of women in African Philosophy and the Arts’ for Brill Publishers, we are searching for an African woman philosopher who is interested in co-authoring a chapter on the work of Germaine de Staël and/or Olympe de Gouges and her own ideas on gender and racial issues together with Professor Sandrine Berges. Prof Bergers is an expert on these women philosophers and currently a Global Professor at the University of York (http://www.sandrineberges.com). Your chapter will become Chapter 15 in Part V of the book titled ‘African women philosophers and Western women philosophers: an intercultural philosophical Dialogue I’ (see the attached document for a short summary of our book project).

 

Madame de Staël is an interesting Continental woman philosopher for the academic field of African Intercultural Philosophy, because she discusses the position of women and that of black Africans in their struggle against colonial patriarchy. While Staël admired the Continental philosopher Rousseau and wrote an entire set of commentaries on him (Letters on the Works and Character of J.J. Rousseau, 1788), she eventually critiqued his silence on actual chattel slavery. While Rousseau condemned the “slavery” of Europeans under monarchies, he wrote almost nothing about the millions enslaved in the colonies. Staël’s novella Mirza features a heroine who is a “female Rousseau in Africa” but uses her voice to actively denounce the trade in ways Rousseau did not.

 

So, if you are a woman African philosopher who wrote or writes about de Staël and Rousseau and/or racism and colonialism and their psychological impact on black African women, our editorial team thinks you will be an excellent match to co-author a chapter with Prof Sandrine Berges. Prof Bergers has given many presentations related to Germaine de Staël’s mentioned novella and also wrote about other works of this woman philosopher (see e.g. the attachment for Berger’s publication titled ‘Staël’s Influence on Cooper and Alcott’). Sandrine also wrote a book on Olympe de Gouges, which I have also attached to this email.

Thank you,

AE Chimakonam