Léopold-Joseph Bonny Duala-M'bedy

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Léopold-Joseph Bonny Duala-M'bedy (also known as Munasu Duala-M'bedy ) is a Cameroonian political scientist , sociologist , ethnologist and xenologist . He is considered the founder of the scientific discipline xenology.

Live and act

Born in 1939 in Cameroon, Duala-M'bedy studied ethnology at the Sorbonne and at the Institut Catholique de Paris . After further studies at the University of Vienna , he received his doctorate in ethnology and sociology in 1962. As an Alexander von Humboldt fellow , he continued his academic research with the history philosopher Eric Voegelin at the Political Science Institute of the University of Munich . In 1972, Duala-M'bedy completed his habilitation with the political science thesis “The Order Conception of the Africans ”, from which his main work “ Xenology ”, published in 1977 by Karl Alber Verlag . The science of the foreign and the repression of humanity in anthropology ”emerged. Under the neologism »Xenology«, which he coined , Duala-M'bedy represents an independent symbol form and its genesis and analyzes it as a central category of the Western self-image. In historical analyzes, he shows how the substantive development of the xenological myth has led to a denial of the humanity of the non-European foreigner.

Duala-M'bedy is visiting professor in Ibadan ( Nigeria ), Düsseldorf and Bremen . As a Voegelin pupil he also taught and worked in Munich and Hamburg . From 1986 to 1997 he was a private lecturer at the Faculty of Social Science at the Ruhr University Bochum , Political Science Section. In 1988 he founded the " Kaiserswerther Institute for Xenology ", which supported many young African scientists and emerged with a number of research projects. In 2015 there were plans to anchor the "Kaiserswerth Institute for Xenology" not only in Douala ( Cameroon ), but also to expand it with European branches.

Publications

  • "Xenology - The Science of the Foreign and the Suppression of Humanity in Anthropology" . ( Fermenta philosophica ) Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1977. ISBN 978-3-495-47350-4
  • Ed .: Desire of the stranger. Contributions to xenology. Kaiserswerth Institute for Xenology. The blue owl, Essen 1992. ISBN 978-3-89206-500-5
  • Ed .: The reply of the foreign in the museum: Xenology and museum education . Athena, Oberhausen 1999. ISBN 978-3-932740-44-2

Festschrift

Christian Bremshey, Hilde Hoffmann, Yomb May, Marco Ortu (eds.): There are no strangers. Xenology and Knowledge . Festschrift for Leopold Joseph Bonny Duala-M'bedy. Lit, Münster 2004. ISBN 978-3-8258-7458-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ruhr University Bochum press release no.192 from June 21, 2004
  2. ^ University of Vienna, Institute of Philosophy, guest lecture by Duala-M'bedy on June 23, 2015

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personal data
SURNAME Duala-M'bedy, Léopold-Joseph Bonny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duala-M'bedy, Munasu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cameroonian political scientist, sociologist and xenologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century