Diagne Postcolonial Bergson

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8585-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten

At a moment of renewed interest in Bergson’s philosophy, this book, by a major figure in both French and African philosophy, gives an expanded idea of the political ramifications of Bergson’s thought in a postcolonial context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Diagne, Souleymane Bachir

Weitere Mitwirkende

Drabinski, John E.

Turner, Lindsay

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Locating the Postcolonial Idea vii
John E. Drabinski

Introduction 1

1 Bergsonism in the Thought of Léopold Sédar Senghor 21

2 Senghor’s African Socialism 37

3 Bergson, Iqbal, and the Concept of Ijtihad 57

4 Time and Fatalism: Iqbal on Islamic Fatalism 77

Conclusion 95

Acknowledgments 99

Notes 101

Index 117

Über Autor(innen)

Diagne Souleymane Bachir:
Souleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor of Philosophy and Francophone Studies at Columbia University. His books include The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa and Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition.Turner Lindsay:
Lindsay Turner is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver.Drabinski John E.:
John E. Drabinski is Charles Hamilton Houston 1915 Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College.Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Author)
Souleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor of Philosophy and Francophone Studies at Columbia University. His books include The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa and Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition.

John E. Drabinski (Foreword By)
John E. Drabinski is Charles Hamilton Houston 1915 Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College.

Lindsay Turner (Translator)
Lindsay Turner is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver.