This essay deploys the existence of epistemic vices in the trajectory of Western philosophy to map the erasures and complicities that accompanied the emergence of contemporary African philosophy (CAP₁). It argues that the complicity of CAP₁ in the hyperspecialization and academic self-absorption that marked the professionalization of Western philosophy, makes it difficult to attend to the conditions for its own possibility. CAP₁ arguably needs to make a critical turn into critical African philosophy (CAP₂), understood as a metatheoretical and metaphilosophical framework for an internal transformation that is emancipatory. CAP₂ is envisioned, first, as a critique of postcoloniality that rehumanizes the autonomous African subject; and, second, as an ethicopolitical project that explores the cracks between philosophy as theoretical practice and philosophy as praxis in opening up the spaces for postcolonial emancipation. The essay identifies three conditions that instigate the emancipatory possibility of philosophizing on the continent: the spatial/platial, demosophic, and political.

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论批判的非洲哲学：绘制优良哲学传统的界限

本文利用西方哲学轨迹中存在的认知缺陷来描绘伴随当代非洲哲学出现的擦除和共谋（CAP ₁）。_{它认为，CAP 1}在标志着西方哲学专业化的高度专业化和学术自我吸收中的同谋，使得它难以关注其自身可能性的条件。CAP _{1可以说需要向批判的非洲哲学 (CAP 2} )进行批判性转变，将其理解为一种用于解放内部变革的元理论和元哲学框架。_第2章首先，被设想为对后殖民主义的批判，使自治的非洲主体重新人性化；其次，作为一个伦理政治项目，探索作为理论实践的哲学与作为实践的哲学之间的裂缝，以开辟后殖民解放的空间。这篇文章确定了激发非洲大陆哲学思考的解放可能性的三个条件：空间/广场、大众和政治。