Souleymane Bachir Diagne

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Souleymane Bachir Diagne
21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy, African philosophy
Main interests
Philosophy of mathematics, Epistemology, Logic, Linguistics, Mathematics, Islamic philosophy

Souleymane Bachir Diagne French:

Islamic world, identity formation, and African literatures and philosophies.[2]

Biography

After passing his

Althusser and Derrida. After receiving his agrégation in Philosophy (1978), Diagne spent a year at Harvard University in an exchange program. In 1982 he defended a doctoral thesis in mathematics at Université Paris I, where, in 1988, he also completed his doctorat d’Etat, under the direction of Jean-Toussaint Desanti, on George Boole
’s algebra of logic.

In 1982, Diagne returned to his native country to teach philosophy at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, where he became vice-dean of the College of Humanities. The former president of the Republic of Senegal, Abdou Diouf, named him Counselor for Education and Culture, a position which he held from 1993 to 1999.

Diagne is co-director of Éthiopiques, a Senegalese journal of

Le Nouvel observateur one of the 50 thinkers of our time. In October 2007, he was invited to participate in a white paper commission on the defense and national security in the French Senate in Paris.[3]

Work

His main publications include two books on George Boole, a book on the Pakistani poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal, Islam et société ouverte. La fidélité et le mouvement dans la pensée de Muhammad Iqbal (2001) and an examination of Senghor's philosophy, Léopold Sédar Senghor. L’Art africain comme philosophie (2007). He published a book on Islam and philosophy: Comment philosopher en Islam in 2010.[4]

Having taught for several years in the departments of Philosophy and Religion at Northwestern University (2002 to 2007), Diagne is currently Professor of French, and former Chair of the Department of French and Romance Philology with a secondary appointment in the Department of Philosophy, at Columbia University in New York.[5] He is director of the Institute of African Studies.[6]

Bibliography

Books (In English)

  • Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition, Translated by Jonathan Adjemian, Columbia University Press (2018).
  • The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa (2016).
  • African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude, Translated by Chike Jeffers, (2011).

Books (In French)

  • Le fagot de ma mémoire (2021)
  • Comment philosopher en Islam (2010)
  • Léopold Sédar Senghor: l’art africain comme philosophie. Paris: Riveneuve Editions, 2007.
  • 100 mots pour dire l’islam. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2002.
  • Islam et société ouverte, la fidélité et le mouvement dans la pensée de Muhammad Iqbal. Paris : Maisonneuve & Larose, 2001.
  • Logique pour philosophes. Dakar: Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Sénégal, 1991 .
  • Boole, l’oiseau de nuit en plein jour. Paris: Belin, 1989.

Articles

  • "Édouard Glissant : l’infinie passion de tramer", Littérature, n° 174, p. 88-91.
  • "On the Postcolonial and the Universal?", Rue Descartes, n° 78, p. 7-18.
  • "Philosopher en Afrique", Critique, n° 771–772, p. 611-612.
  • "Breathless...", Philosophy World Democracy.
  • "Individual, Community, and human Rights, a lesson from Kwasi Wiredu’s philosophy of personhood", Transition, an international Review, No. 101, pp. 8–15.

Interviews

Video

Notes

  1. ^ "USA : Souleymane Bachir Diagne,nouveau membre de l'Académie américaine des Arts et des Sciences". 25 April 2019.
  2. ^ Columbia University Institute of African Studies Fall 2008 Events Calendar
  3. ^ Video of the white paper commission hearing (in French)
  4. ^ "Comment philosopher en Islam?". France Culture (in French). Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  5. ^ Columbia University Department of French and Romance Philology Annual Newsletter, December 2007
  6. ^ "Souleymane Bachir Diagne | Columbia | French". french.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-16.

Further reading

External links

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