Nação, cultura e modernidade no pensamento de Severino Ngoenha

Abstract

The present study consists of an interdisciplinary and exploratory social analysis of the thinking of the Mozambican philosopher Severino Elias Ngoenha (1962). The purpose is to explore the main themes studied by this philosopher, as concepts expressed in his works, especially the notions of nation, culture, modernity and tradition, and try to present through this analysis possible readings of Mozambican society. This research intends to situate itself in the field of Social History and, more precisely, of the Social History of Culture, in connection with African Studies and the Epistemologies of the South. On the one hand, it tries to situate the philosophy of Ngoenha in its context of production, but at the same time it seeks to describe and analyze how Ngoenha, through his philosophy, thinks the society and history of Mozambican, the African and the human in general.