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A distinct, incisive look at an important figure in African literature and politics that will be welcomed by scholars in African studies and philosophy.

Léopold Sédar Senghor (19062001) 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 Senghors influential works, taking as the starting point for his analysis Henri Bergsons 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 timespecifically, Nietzsche and Rimbaud, as well as Bergsons Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness. The 1889 Revolution, Senghor claims, is what led him to the understanding of the Vitalism at the core of African religions and beliefs that found expression in the arts.

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This critically acclaimed study offers a distinct, incisive look at how Senegalese philosopher Senghor sees in African art the most acute expression of Bergsons philosophy.

Léopold Sédar Senghor (19062001) 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 uses a unique approach to reading Senghors influential works, taking as the starting point for his analysis Henri Bergsons 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 (the year Bergsons Time and Free Will was published), as well as the influential writers and publications of that periodspecifically, Nietzsche and Rimbaud. The 1889 Revolution, Senghor claims, is what led him to the understanding of the Vitalism at the core of African religions and beliefs that found expression in the arts.

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African Art as Philosophy

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