The Essential Senghor

African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics
Senegalese poet, philosopher, and politician Léopold Sédar Senghor, together with Aimé Césaire and others, developed the influential and perennially relevant negritude movement – a Black artistic, philosophical, and political expression of Black presence in the modern colonial world. The Essential Senghor provides a new opportunity for English-language readers to engage with Senghor’s critical and philosophical writings spanning from 1937 to 1985. This collection includes Senghor’s key philosophical interventions in discourses on freedom, Blackness and being, humanism, history, and more. It portrays Senghor as a pivotal intellectual in the fields of African and Black studies whose work engages a wide range of disciplines, including literature, linguistics, anthropology, religion, and art history. The Essential Senghor invites readers not only to reflect on negritude and its importance for our political present, but also to reconsider intellectual genealogies of decolonial thought, Black liberation, and African philosophy.

Contributor: Doyle D. Calhoun (Edited by), Alioune Fall (Edited by), Cheikh Thiam (Edited by), Doyle D. Calhoun (Translated by), Alioune Fall (Translated by), Cheikh Thiam (Translated by)

Translator: Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune Fall, Cheikh Thiam

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