In October 2023, Sciences Humaines in France published the anthology La grande histoire de l’Afrique (Editor: Laurent Testor). The global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud contributed to the book with the article «L’ histoire oubliée des pensées africaines» («The forgotten history of African thoughts»), which covers texts from Ancient Egypt/Kemet via Timbuktu and Ethiopia to Anton W. Amo and Phillis Wheatley. Info on the book on African history, Le grande […]
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New book: On November 6, 2023 De Gruyter publishes the first critical translation of the Hatätas, written by Zera Yaqob and Walda Heywat, into English. The volume is edited by Ralph Lee, Mehari Worku and Wendy Laura Belcher in collaboration with Jeremy R. Brown. Translated by: Ralph Lee, Mehari Zemelak Worku and Wendy Laura Belcher. Preface by: Dag Herbjørnsrud. UPDATE: All info here: www.sgoki.org/no/2023/11/30/book-launch-the-hatata-inquiries/ Info from the publisher on The Hatata Inquiries: Two Texts of Seventeenth-Century African Philosophy from Ethiopia […]
On May 24 2023, the global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud delivered a video lecture on the history of African thinking (from ca. 2000 BCE to 1800 CE) for the Latin American Institute for Advanced Studies (Instituto Latino-Americano de Estudos Avançados, ILEA) at the UFRGS University in Brazil (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul). The Herbjørnsrud lecture – African Libertarian Thinking: Revolutionary and Heterodoxal – introduced a series of […]
Afrikanske Evrybates er sentral i Odysseen. Afrikanere grunnla byer i Spania og Italia, før de styrte det romerske imperiet. Nye bøker viser hvordan europeere ba om hjelp fra Etiopia på 1400-tallet. I Ny Tid-essayet «Å utfordre et eurosentriske perspektiv» skriver Dag Herbjørnsrud at Genova, i dagens Italia, allerede i 1306 fikk besøk fra dusinvis av ortodokse, kristne etiopiere. Fra 1470-tallet etablerte etiopiere sin egen kirke i Vatikanet, i Roma. Samtidig […]
I vårutgaven av kvartalsavisen Ny Tid (mars 2021) har idéhistoriker Dag Herbjørnsrud et essay om nye bøker om Mali-riket, Timbuktur, Djenne, Ebo-folket og Benin-riket i dagens Nigeria. Inkludert en gjennomgang av boken The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution (2020) av Oxford-professor Dan Hicks, samt forbindelsen til Etnografisk Mueum i Oslo. (Hovedill.: Dronning Idia var sentral makthaver over edo-folket (dagen sørvestre Nigeria) på 1500-tallet. Denne masken […]
As of March 2020, five articles of the global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud (founder of SGOKI) have been listed at the website of «Pieces on Non-‘Western’ Philosophy: for a General Audience: A List.» This list of texts on philosophy is made by Abiral Chitrakar Phuyal, New York University/Shanghai. LINK. The 5 texts of Herbjørnsrud: General/comparative: ‘First women of philosophy’, Aeon, 23 November, 2018. Africa: ‘The African Enlightenment’, Aeon, 13 December, 2017 Africa: ‘The […]
In December 2019, the leading French magazine Sciences Humaines (edition Historie) has published the article «L’histoire oubliée des pensées africaines» (The forgotten history of African ideas) by the global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud (founder of SGOKI). This text is part of a larger special issue on Africa – see list of content (sommaire). The article covers texts from Egypt (Kemet) – like the 3,700-year-old lamenation by Ankhu (ca 1700 […]
I desember 2019 utkom professor Tore Linné Eriksens omfattende og kritikerroste bok Afrika. Fra de første mennesker til i dag (Cappelen Damm). På side 112-113 omtales Dag Herbjørnsruds artikkel «Afrikas ukjente opplysningsfilosofer» (original: «The African Enlightenment«) i en egen boks. Tittelen er: «Er det bare europeere som kan tenke?» Linné Eriksen skriver: «Den norske idéhistorikeren Dag Herbjørnsrud er internasjonalt kjent for sitt arbeid med å løfte fram filosofi og tenkning […]
The journal Cosmopolis – a journal of cosmopolitics (Brussels, Belgium) – which is published twice a year, is planning a special issue on the topic “Decolonizing the Academy” in late 2020. We are looking for articles, papers, and texts that can illuminate the topic. Please send you proposal (a short sketch is enough) to dag@sgoki.org by February 1st, 2020. Final deadline for finished texts: October 15th, 2020. (PHOTO CAPTION: The […]
The Aeon essay «The African Enlightenment« (Dec 2017) by SGOKI founder Dag Herbjørnsrud, is now translated into French and published in the 100th issue (September 2019) of the renowned magazine Books. The article, which covers the African philosophers Zera Yacob (1599-1672) of Ethiopia and Anton Wilhelm Amo (b. ca. 1703-d. after 1753), has received the title «Zara Yaqob, plus fort que Descartes« (excerpts below). Dec 24, 2017 the essay was […]
Podcast: The podcast Seize The Moment (FB-link), by Leon Garber and Alan Ulman, devotes its episode 21 (Sept 15, 2019) to an hour-long conversation with the global historian of ideas, Dag Herbjørnsrud – the founder of SGOKI. The title of the episode is «The Colonization of Intellectual Thought«. Info from the Seize the Moment podcast: «On episode 21, we welcome philosopher Dag Herbjornsrud to learn about the exclusion of marginalized […]