Contemporary Hermeneutics in African Philosophy Attesting Humanity

A philosopher and physicist, David-Le-Duc TIAHA is Program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie and a member of the Fonds Ricœur-CRAL-EHESS research team as well as of its scientific advisory board at the Institut Protestant de Théologie de Paris. Author of Paul Ricœur et le paradoxe de la chair (2009). His work explores the often neglected relationship between ethics and hermeneutics, the postcolonial condition and Negro-African clinical anthropology, as well as forms of self-attestation, articulating affects and discourse, implicit in biblical hermeneutics.

Across these different fields, his research is driven by a sustained inquiry into processes of emergence, resonance, event, and interpretation. This concern gives coherence to his dual engagement with philosophy and physics: in phenomenology, hermeneutics, and African philosophy, he examines how meaning, selfhood, and relation come into appearance; in the philosophy of quantum physics, he investigates the passage from the intuition of the quantum event or phenomenon to the interpretation of its reality within theoretical and experimental contexts.

His work thus unfolds as a continuous reflection on the conditions under which phenomena become intelligible, whether in lived experience, textual interpretation, intercultural encounter, or physical reality—the latter, moreover, being re-engaged from physical existence through flesh and body. David-Le-Duc TIAHA thereby brings a transdisciplinary perspective that opens new vistas on both sides, reconnecting philosophy with its organic function of mediation between the human and social sciences and STEM, conceived as a continuum.