The Poetics of Philosophy Part 1: Nimi Wariboko's Circles of Being and Becoming
Abstract A reflection on the contemplative power of theologian, philosopher and economist Nimi Wariboko's acknowledgements in his forthcoming book The Pentecostal Hypothesis. The theologian, philosopher and economist Nimi Wariboko is a consummate and prolific writer of books. Scholarly books. Profound and complex. Verbally powerful, at times lyrical, at times conceptually and expressively muscular in uncompromising force, often imaginatively recreative. There is another side to Wariboko, however, that may be seen as being as significant as the Wariboko writing those books. The words of this Wariboko can be fitted into an essay but they are so rich that the Wariboko in those books might perh...