L’islam est-il une religion différente des autres, arc-boutée sur un texte provenantdirectement de Dieu, une théologie éminemment politique qui tolère la violence ? Ou bien l’opinion dominante est-elle tout simplement devenue islamophobe, incapable de voir dans cette tradition religieuse la rationalité, la spiritualité et la liberté de penser et de pratiquer qui s’y trouvent ?Opposés sur presque tous ces points, Rémi Brague et Souleymane Bachir Diagne discutent les extraits d...

In this engaging humanist text, a renowned Senegalese philosopher explores the power of translation to bridge cultural divides.Informed by his own multicultural background—African, French, and American—Souleymane Bachir Diagne interrogates the practice of translation in this thoughtful text. Although translation often produces a relationship of profound inequality between dominant and dominated languages, it can also be a source of dialogue and exchange, including ...

This critically acclaimed study offers a distinct, incisive look at how Senegalese philosopher Senghor sees in African art the most acute expression of Bergson’s philosophy.Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001) 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 Senghor’s influential works, taking as the starting po...

Ubuntu, a Bantu word that became the first term from an Indigenous language to enter a political constitution, is host to many meanings: 'humanity', 'fraternity', 'compassion', and even ‘'forming a community'. According to Souleymane Bachir Diagne, all these conceptions come together in the art of making the community better and in the understanding of humanity as a task to be fulfilled. Ubuntu dissolves tribalism, leaving in its stead an embrace of the plural within universality. In this ...

Partant de ce fait que la philosophie africaine connaît aujourd’hui un important développement et fait l’objet de nombreuses publications, l’auteur examine le champ de questions et l’espace de débat que constitue l’activité philosophique en Afrique, pour présenter ici à la fois un « précis » de cette activité et un exposé de ses propres réflexions sur les thèmes les plus importants autour desquels elle s’organise . L’on peut considérer en effet, constate-til, que pour l’essentiel quatre gr...

What does it mean to be a Muslim philosopher, or to philosophize in Islam? In Open to Reason, Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces Muslims’ intellectual and spiritual history of examining and questioning beliefs and arguments to show how Islamic philosophy has always engaged critically with texts and ideas both inside and outside its tradition. Through a rich reading of classical and modern Muslim philosophers, Diagne explains the long history of philosophy in the Islamic world and its...

"Este livro apresenta uma reflexão sobre a tradução e sua capacidade, seu poder de criar uma relação de equivalência, de reciprocidade entre as identidades, de fazê-las comparecer, isto é, aparecer juntas em pé de igualdade, de modo que possamos dialogar e nos compreender de língua a língua. Como escreveu Antoine Berman, a tradução nada mais é do que 'estabelecimento de relação'. Este livro pretende ser, portanto, um 'elogio da tradução' e um convite a reconhecê-la como um 'humanismo', exp...

What does it mean to be a Muslim philosopher, or to philosophize in Islam? In Open to Reason, Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces Muslims’ intellectual and spiritual history of examining and questioning beliefs and arguments to show how Islamic philosophy has always engaged critically with texts and ideas both inside and outside its tradition. Through a rich reading of classical and modern Muslim philosophers, Diagne explains the long history of philosophy in the Islamic world and its...

Henri Bergson has been the subject of keen interest within French philosophy ever since being championed by Gilles Deleuze and others. Yet his influence extends well beyond European philosophy, especially within Africa and South Asia. Postcolonial Bergson traces the influence of Bergson’s thought through the work of two major figures in the postcolonial struggle, Muhammad Iqbal and Léopold Sédar Senghor. Poets and statesmen as well as philosophers, both of these thinkers—the one M...

La pensée de Mohammed Iqbal (1877-1938) commence à être identifiée comme une ressource majeure par la nouvelle génération des intellectuels musulmans en quête d’un Islam ouvert, capable de se repenser tout en contribuant de manière créative au débat désormais mondial sur le trajet de la sécularisation. Iqbal, honoré au Pakistan comme un père fondateur, a été formé à Cambridge et c’est donc en anglais qu’il publie en 1934 La Reconstruction de la pensée religieuse en Islam, son livre majeur....

Les auteurs de cet ouvrage qui est le produit de l'atelier conjointement organisé par le CODESRIA et la FOCSIV sur la « Culture du Développement » ont tenté et réussi à inscrire au sein même de la notion de développement, « les besoins culturels » en traçant la voie d'une nouvelle philosophie du développement, c'est-à-dire l'approfondissement en sa dimension socio-culturelle de la dimension jusqu'alors unilinéaire - quoique l'on s'en défendit - du progrès des nations. Il est aujourd'hui cl...

In the atmosphere of suspicion and anger that characterizes our time, it is a joy to hear the voice of Iqbal, both passionate and serene. It is the voice of a soul that is deeply anchored in the Quranic Revelation, and precisely for that reason, open to all the other voices, seeking in them the path of his own fidelity. It is the voice of a man who has left behind all identitarian rigidity, who has « broken all the idols of tribe and caste » to address himself to all human beings. But an u...