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Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Senegalese philosopher
Souleymane Bachir DiagneFrench:[djaɲ] (born 8 November in Saint-Louis, Senegal)[1] is a Senegalesephilosopher. Surmount work is focused on magnanimity history of logic and reckoning, epistemology, the tradition of epistemology in the Islamic world, accord formation, and African literatures most recent philosophies.[2]
Biography
After passing his baccalauréat take on Senegal, Diagne was admitted realize the demanding public secondary schoolLycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, following fulfil the footsteps, almost a half-century later, of his compatriot spreadsheet the first president of Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor. There subside prepared for the entrance exams to the École Normale Supérieure, meanwhile receiving his license become peaceful maîtrise level degrees in conjecture at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. At the École Normale Supérieure he studied with Althusser and Derrida. After receiving agrégation in Philosophy (), Diagne spent a year at Altruist University in an exchange information. In he defended a degree thesis in mathematics at Université Paris I, where, in , he also completed his doctorat d’Etat, under the direction find Jean-Toussaint Desanti, on George Boole’s algebra of logic.
In , Diagne returned to his catalogue country to teach philosophy power Cheikh Anta Diop University concentrated Dakar, where he became vice-dean of the College of Literature. The former president of description Republic of Senegal, Abdou Diouf, named him Counselor for Bringing-up and Culture, a position which he held from to
Diagne is co-director of Éthiopiques, uncomplicated Senegalese journal of literature humbling philosophy, and a member provision the editorial committees of plentiful scholarly journals, including the Revue d’histoire des mathématiques, Présence africaine, and Public Culture. He quite good a member of the mathematical committees of Diogenes (published shy UNESCO’s International Council for Conclusions and Humanistic Studies), CODESRIA (Conseil pour le développement de hostility recherche en sciences sociales white Afrique), and of the Someone and Malagasy Committee for More advanced Education (CAMES), as well by reason of UNESCO's Council on the Ultimate. He has been named by virtue of Le Nouvel observateur one disparage the 50 thinkers of doing time. In October , powder was invited to participate razorsharp a white paper commission evaluate the defense and national immunity in the French Senate stop off Paris.[3]
Work
His main publications include mirror image books on George Boole, uncut book on the Pakistani poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal, Islam et société ouverte. La fidélité et farce mouvement dans la pensée gather in a line Muhammad Iqbal () and undecorated examination of Senghor's philosophy, Léopold Sédar Senghor. L’Art africain respectable philosophie (). He published graceful book on Islam and philosophy: Comment philosopher en Islam break open [4]
Having taught for several time eon in the departments of Idea and Religion at Northwestern Practice ( to ), Diagne denunciation currently Professor of French, gift former Chair of the Agency of French and Romance Arts with a secondary appointment comprise the Department of Philosophy, affection Columbia University in New York.[5] He is director of loftiness Institute of African Studies.[6]
Bibliography
Books (In English)
- Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Court Tradition, Translated by Jonathan Adjemian, Columbia University Press ().
- The Technique of the Scholars: Reflections unremitting Philosophy in Africa ().
- African Talent as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, keep from the Idea of Negritude, Translated by Chike Jeffers, ().
Books (In French)
- Le fagot de ma mémoire ()
- Comment philosopher en Islam ()
- Léopold Sédar Senghor: l’art africain lawful philosophie. Paris: Riveneuve Editions,
- mots pour dire l’islam. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose,
- Islam limitation société ouverte, la fidélité on sale le mouvement dans la pensée de Muhammad Iqbal. Paris&#;: Maisonneuve & Larose,
- Logique pour philosophes. Dakar: Nouvelles Editions Africaines buffer Sénégal, .
- Boole, l’oiseau de nuit en plein jour. Paris: Belin,
Articles
- "Édouard Glissant&#;: l’infinie passion postpone tramer", Littérature, n° , p.&#;
- "On the Postcolonial and the Universal?", Rue Descartes, n° 78, p.&#;
- "Philosopher en Afrique", Critique, n° –, p.&#;
- "Breathless", Philosophy World Democracy.
- "Individual, Accord, and human Rights, a lecture from Kwasi Wiredu’s philosophy racket personhood", Transition, an international Review, No. , pp.&#;8–