A Philosophical Forgery?
New Generation Thinker Jonathan Egid, lecturer in African Philosophy at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, on the mystery around Ethiopian thinker Zera Yacob.
In 1852, a book of philosophical enquiry was discovered in Ethiopia. But what if the Hatata Zera Yacob is a forgery? Does it matter, if the message is inspirational? Debates over its authorship rage and Jonathan Egid鈥檚 essay asks what these tell us about politics then and now.
Jonathan Egid is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the 麻豆官网首页入口 to put academic research on radio.
He鈥檚 been a Postgraduate Fellow at the British Society for the History of Philosophy and lectures at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He is writing a book about the history of the Hatata Zera Yacob debate, and runs a podcast on philosophy in less-studied languages called Philosophising In ...
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