出版社：University of Hradec Králové, Philosophical Faculty
摘要：This book makes a profound attempt to understand and explicate African notions of the body as well as interbodily,intersubjective and cosmocentric modalities. The book is timely and valuable in a number of respects: first,in its focus on interbodily,intersubjective and cosmocentric modalities the book contributes to critiques of the Western imposition of individualistic notions on otherwise collectivistic African cultures. In this sense,the book contributes insights to discourses around African Ubuntu and its underlying collectivism. Second,in its focus on interbodiliness and the topical notion of “affect” the book contributes insights from contemporary Western philosophy that is premised on speculative realism and relationality. However,unlike abstract scholarly philosophical works that often engage in discourses on the body and affect in abstractu,Rene Devisch’s book is premised on his long immersion in the African Yakaphones’ activities and thoughts systems. Based on the author’s lengthy stay with the Yakaphones,the book engages with the intricate and intriguing African practices of and perspectives on healing cults,sorcery and rituals. While carefully explicating the Yakaphones’ practices,Devisch exposes ways in which Africans are woven in terms of the body-group-world weave within which there are various forms of reciprocity,co-resonance and co-naturality of life forms in the African universe.
