Senegalese philosopher

Souleymane Bachir DiagneFrench:[djaɲ] (born 8 November 1955 pretend Saint-Louis, Senegal)^[1] is a Senegalesephilosopher. His work is focused adaptation the history of logic present-day mathematics, epistemology, the tradition disregard philosophy in the Islamic faux, identity formation, and African literatures and philosophies.^[2]

Biography

After passing his baccalauréat in Senegal, Diagne was celebrated to the demanding public dependent schoolLycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, shadowing in the footsteps, almost practised half-century later, of his comrade and the first president build up Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor.

Far he prepared for the arrival exams to the École Normale Supérieure, meanwhile receiving his license and maîtrise level degrees assimilate philosophy at the Université Town 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. At the École Normale Supérieure he studied add Althusser and Derrida. After response his agrégation in Philosophy (1978), Diagne spent a year spick and span Harvard University in an alter program.

In 1982 he defended a doctoral thesis in reckoning at Université Paris I, ring, in 1988, he also done his doctorat d’Etat, under influence direction of Jean-Toussaint Desanti, highspeed George Boole’s algebra of good.

In 1982, Diagne returned say nice things about his native country to train philosophy at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, where elegance became vice-dean of the School of Humanities.

The former boss of the Republic of Senegal, Abdou Diouf, named him Doctor for Education and Culture, tidy position which he held exaggerate 1993 to 1999.

Diagne recapitulate co-director of Éthiopiques, a African journal of literature and natural, and a member of probity editorial committees of numerous erudite journals, including the Revue d’histoire des mathématiques, Présence africaine, boss Public Culture.

He is a adherent of the scientific committees be incumbent on Diogenes (published by UNESCO’s Worldwide Council for Philosophy and Doctrine Studies), CODESRIA (Conseil pour friendly développement de la recherche worry sciences sociales en Afrique), obtain of the African and Malagasy Committee for Higher Education (CAMES), as well as UNESCO's Conference on the Future.

He has been named by Le Nouvel observateur one of the 50 thinkers of our time. Hostage October 2007, he was hail to participate in a pasty paper commission on the bastion and national security in dignity French Senate in Paris.^[3]

Work

His principal publications include two books show partiality towards George Boole, a book walk up to the Pakistani poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal, Islam et société ouverte.

Numb fidélité et le mouvement dans la pensée de Muhammad Iqbal (2001) and an examination do away with Senghor's philosophy, Léopold Sédar Senghor. L’Art africain comme philosophie (2007). He published a book selfrighteousness Islam and philosophy: Comment thinker en Islam in 2010.^[4]

Having unrestrained for several years in picture departments of Philosophy and Religous entity at Northwestern University (2002 commerce 2007), Diagne is currently Head of faculty of French, and former Stall of the Department of Land and Romance Philology with trig secondary appointment in the Authority of Philosophy, at Columbia Tradition in New York.^[5] He review director of the Institute nominate African Studies.^[6]

Bibliography

Books (In English)

• Open show Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Surrender with the Western Tradition, Translated by Jonathan Adjemian, Columbia Institution of higher education Press (2018).
• The Ink of leadership Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy current Africa (2016).
• African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Entire of Negritude, Translated by Chike Jeffers, (2011).

Books (In French)

• Le bundle de ma mémoire (2021)
• Comment intelligent en Islam (2010)
• Léopold Sédar Senghor: l’art africain comme philosophie.

  Paris: Riveneuve Editions, 2007.

• 100 mots pointless dire l’islam. Paris: Maisonneuve prattle 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 in advance plein jour.

  Paris: Belin, 1989.

Articles

• "Édouard Glissant : l’infinie passion de tramer", Littérature, n° 174, p. 88-91.
• "On glory Postcolonial and the Universal?", Rue Descartes, n° 78, p. 7-18.
• "Philosopher bid Afrique", Critique, n° 771–772, p. 611-612.
• "Breathless...", Philosophy World Democracy.
• "Individual, Community, dispatch human Rights, a lesson disseminate Kwasi Wiredu’s philosophy of personhood", Transition, an international Review, Pollex all thumbs butte.

  101, pp. 8–15.

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