Paulin J. Hountondji

Paulin Jidenu Hountondji was born on 11 April 1942 in Abidjan. A student at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where he followed Louis Althusser and Jacques Derrida, he defended in 1970 a thesis on Husserl, taught at Besançon, Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, then became professor of philosophy at the National University of Benin, where he was the first elected dean of the faculty of arts. A critic of the military dictatorship, he was minister of Education and then of Culture until 1994, directed the African Centre for Advanced Studies in Porto-Novo and died in Cotonou on 2 February 2024.

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• EssayAfrican Philosophy: Myth and RealitySur la « philosophie africaine ». Critique de l'ethnophilosophiePaulin J. Hountondji · 1977Literature