African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude (Diagne Souleymane Bachir)(Paperback)

A distinct, incisive look at an important figure in African literature and politics that will be welcomed by scholars in African studies and philosophy. Lopold Sdar Senghor (1906-2001) was a Senegalese poet and philosopher who in 1960 also became the first president of the Republic of Senegal. In African Art as Philosophy, Souleymane Bachir Diagne takes a unique approach to reading Senghor's influential works, taking as the starting point for his analysis Henri Bergson's idea that in order to understand philosophers one must find the initial intuition from which every aspect of their work develops. In the case of Senghor, Diagne argues that his primordial intuition is that African art is a philosophy. To further this point, Diagne looks at what Senghor called the "1889 Revolution," and the influential writers and publications of that time--specifically, Nietzsche
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