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Description:The Essential Senghor collects and translates essays, speeches and other writings from Senegalese poet, philosopher, and politician Leopold Sédar Senghor—the major theoretician of negritude— highlighting his radical visions of African philosophy, Black aesthetics, and freedom.Senegalese poet, philosopher, and politician Leopold 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics. To get started finding The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The Essential Senghor collects and translates essays, speeches and other writings from Senegalese poet, philosopher, and politician Leopold Sédar Senghor—the major theoretician of negritude— highlighting his radical visions of African philosophy, Black aesthetics, and freedom.Senegalese poet, philosopher, and politician Leopold 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics. To get started finding The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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