I Shout, Therefore I am an Energy: Bachelard and Capoeira Angola, A Phenomenology of the Body

Authors: Kafure da Rocha G*

DOI: 10.23880/phij-16000127

Volume 2, Issue 3

Abstract

The present article intends to analyze the possibility of a dialogue between Bachelard, Capoeira and phenomenology of the body — how to reconcile European and Indo-African-American philosophy? To this end, we will use the imagery of Capoeira Angola in search of exchanges in this circle of knowledge. Bachelard’s concept of physiognomony will be applied to Capoeira Angola to reveal the relation between animality and dissimulation in the imagery of this practice. Therefore, we will develop this complex using the force of antagonisms of poetics and epistemology. To this end, we will use brief comments by Hountondji and Senghor to unveil pluralism in Bachelard’s French philosophy applied to Africanness and from this thinking experience seek to mediate accounts of native philosophical and geopoetic experiences as a teacher of Capoeira Angola and philosophy.

Keywords: Physiognomony; Dissimulation; Animality; Lautréamont

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