Abstract

The text reconstructs a certain history of ‘tangled humanism’ between Sartre’s claim for existential freedom and Fanon’s rebuttal of humanism given the European colonialism. Due to its disclosed hypocrisy, the term is dropped by the French philosophers Deleuze and Guattari who replace it with demands of ‘becoming-ahuman', ‘-imperceptible’ or ‘everybody’. This alteration is discussed by various African authors, who now ask for a modified reconsideration of humanism close to ideas like ‘ubuntu’. Expanding on this, the text proposes to develop a political humanism based on (non-in)dividual concepts of the person and of other non-undivided entities such as culture, ecologies or art practices. Within the aesthetic realm, it tries to show that certain artistic productions should be read as dividual statements, since they combine motives and aesthetic styles from different origins and bring about cross-cultural expressions.