87. Call It Intuition: Leopold Senghor

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

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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).  

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• 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).

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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.

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Africana Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

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68. Introduction
69. American Negro Academy
70. Curry on Early 20th C.
71. West African Intellectuals
72. African American Socialism
73. Wills on Marxism
74. Marcus Garvey
75. Two Amy Garveys
76. Dawson on Garvey
77. Harlem Renaissance
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81. Carter G. Woodson
82. Zora Neale Hurston
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84. Later Du Bois
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86. Negritude
87. Leopold Senghor
88. Aimé and Suzanne Césaire
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90. C.L.R. James
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92. Claudia Jones
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131. Black British Cultural Studies
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