In March 2024, De Gruyter announced that The Hatata Inquries (a translation of two philosophical texts by the Ethiopian Zara Yaqob (1600-1693) and his student Walda Heywat) were among the publisher’s Top 6 Recent Bestsellers. The Hatata Inquries were translated from Ge’ez by Wendy L. Belcher, Ralph Lee, Mehari Worku and Jeremy R. Brown. Preface by Dag Herbjørnsrud. Published in late November 2023. De Guyter page: www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110781922/html?lang=en A Global Book […]
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New book: On November 20 2023, De Gruyter published the first scholarly translation of the rationality texts by Zara Yaqob (1600-1693) and his student Walda Heywat, The Hatata Inquiries: Two Texts of Seventeenth-Century African Philosophy from Ethiopia about Reason, the Creator, and Our Ethical Responsibilities (link to De Gruyter). The Open Access Preface is by Dag Herbjørnsrud (SGOKI). 120 years after two inquiries (Hatätas), written in the Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez), […]
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 […]