Postcolonial Bergson
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-8583-9 (ISBN)
For Iqbal, a founding father of independent Pakistan, Bergson’s conceptions of time and creative evolution resonated with the need for the “reconstruction of religious thought in Islam,” a religious thought newly able to incorporate innovation and change. For Senghor, Bergsonian ideas of perception, intuition, and élan vital—filtered in part through the work of the French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin—proved crucial for thinking about African art, as well as foundational for his formulations of African socialism and his visions of an unalienated African future.
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.
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. Lindsay Turner is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of two collections of poetry and has translated books by Stéphane Bouquet, Éric Baratay, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Anne Dufourmantelle, Richard Rechtman, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and others. John E. Drabinski is Charles Hamilton Houston 1915 Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College.
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
Erscheinungsdatum | 13.09.2019 |
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Übersetzer | Lindsay Turner |
Vorwort | John E. Drabinski |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 127 x 191 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8232-8583-9 / 0823285839 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8232-8583-9 / 9780823285839 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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