African art as philosophy : Senghor, Bergson, and the idea of negritude /
"Léopold Sédar 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 poi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Seagull Books,
2011.
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| Series: | Africa list (Seagull Books)
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | "Léopold Sédar 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. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: Léopold Sédar Senghor : l'art africain comme philosophie. 2007. |
| Physical Description: | vii, 210 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210). |
| ISBN: | 9781906497897 1906497893 |