Inventing the world

transnationalism, transmission, and Christian textualities

Isabel Hofmeyr

pp. 19-35

in: Jamie S. Scott, Gareth Griffiths (eds), Mixed messages, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Abstract

Indeed, the “world” as a category of thought is one of the most impoverished concepts of African philosophical reflection. To a very large extent, the confinement of Africa to area studies and the inability of African criticism to think in terms of the “world” go together. (Mbembe 2001, 4)