87. Call It Intuition: Leopold Senghor

Posted on

Leopold Senghor compares different ways of knowing while developing his theory of Negritude and combining the roles of poet and politician.

download-icon
.

Themes:

Further Reading

• L.S. Senghor (ed.), Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache de langue française (Paris: 1948). 

• L.S. Senghor, On African Socialism, trans. M. Cook (New York: 1964).

• L.S. Senghor, Liberté 1: Négritude et humanisme (Paris: 1964).

• L.S. Senghor, Liberté 2: Nation et voie africaine du socialisme (Paris: 1971).

• L.S. Senghor, Liberté 3: Négritude et civilisation de l'universel (Paris: 1977).

• L.S. Senghor, Liberté 4: Socialisme et planification (Paris: 1983).

• L.S. Senghor, Liberté 5: Le dialogue des cultures (Paris: 1993).

• L.S. Senghor, The Collected Poetry, trans. M. Dixon (Charlottesville, VA: 1991).

• L.S. Senghor, "What the Black Man Contributes," trans. M.B. Mader, in R. Bernasconi (ed.), Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy (Bloomington, IN: 2003).  

***

• S.B. Diagne, African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson and the Idea of Negritude, trans. C. Jeffers (London: 2012).

• C. Jeffers, "Black Civilization and the Dialogue of Cultures: Senghor's Combination of Cultural Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism," in I. Constant and K. Mabana (eds.), Negritude: Legacy and Present Relevance (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: 2009).

• R. Rabaka, The Negritude Movement: W.E.B. Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and the Evolution of an Insurgent Idea (Lanham, MD: 2015).

• C. Thiam, Return to the Kingdom of Childhood: Re-Envisioning the Legacy and Philosophical Relevance of Negritude (Columbus, OH: 2014).

• J.G. Vaillant, Black, French, and African: A Life of Léopold Sédar Senghor (Cambridge, MA: 1990). 

• G. Wilder, The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars (Chicago: 2005).

• G. Wilder, Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Durham, NC: 2015).

Comments

18 March 2024 on 18 March 2024

Philosopher kings

I knew a little about Vaclav Havel, but not Léopold Sédar Senghor. That was new to me. A philosopher king indeed!

Thank you for the podcasts.

Add new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.

Africana Philosophy in the Twentieth Century


apple podcasts ..