Bantu Philosophy never entered the European philosophical mainstream upon publication

Evidence

The publication of Bantu Philosophy by Presence Africaine was not an earthshaking event. It certainly did not attract the attention of many in Europe, where it was published, or in Africa, where its content originated. With respect to Europe, Kleinhempel (2019, p.132), notes that “Bantu Philosophy, was not received into the mainstream of European philosophy”. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 101

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the common assumption that Tempels’s book was immediately influential; comparable to how other seminal non-Western texts were marginal to European canons. — connects to: Bantu Philosophy mattered to European ethnographers of Africa but not to philosophers
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Bantu Philosophy mattered to European ethnographers of Africa but not to philosophers

Broader Connections

• Bantu Philosophy mattered to European ethnographers of Africa but not to philosophers #corroborates (0.92)