Essential Senghor
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African Aesthetics
African Art
African Civilization
African diaspora
African Family
African Humanism
African Ontology
African Philosophy
African Religion
African Society
Afro-Antillean
Aime Cesaire
Alassane Ndaw
Annamalai University
Apollinaire
Aristotle
assimilation
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beauty
Belgium
bilingualism
Black Atlantic
Black poetry
Black subjectivity
Blackness
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Civilization of the Universal
colonial administration
colonization
Dakar
Dakar Chamber of Commerce
Decolonization
Dialogue of Cultures
diaspora
Dravidian Languages
education
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Ethics
European art
forthcoming
Foyer France-Senegal
Francophone
Francophone Africa
Francophone Caribbean
Francophone poetry
French poetry
Greek Philosophy
Haiti
Harlem Renaissance
Henri Bergson
International Biennale of Poetry
Leo Frobenius
Leopold Lucas Prize
Manatees
Marxism
metaphysics
Metissage
Negritude
Negro Soul
Negro-African aesthetics
New Negro Movement
oral tradition
Pan-Africanism
Picasso
Pierre Dumont
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
poetry
Pulaar
rationalism
rhythm
Rimbaud
Second Congress of Black Writers and Artists
Senegal
Senegalese Independence
Sereer mythology
translation
University of Bayrouth
University of Tubingen
vital force
Wolof
Product details
- ISBN 9781478033677
- Weight: 572g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Senegalese poet, philosopher, and politician Léopold 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.
Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001) was a poet, philosopher, and the first president of Senegal.
Doyle D. Calhoun is University Assistant Professor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Alioune Fall is Assistant Professor of Black Studies and French at Providence College.
Cheikh Thiam is Department Chair of English and Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College.
Doyle D. Calhoun is University Assistant Professor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Alioune Fall is Assistant Professor of Black Studies and French at Providence College.
Cheikh Thiam is Department Chair of English and Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College.
