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African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics

By Léopold Sédar Senghor

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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.

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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.

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ISBN: 9781478033677

Publisher: Duke University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 April 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Duke University Press

Contributors:

Edited by Cheikh Thiam
Edited by Doyle D. Calhoun
Translated by Alioune Fall
Translated by Doyle D Calhoun
Edited by Alioune Fall
Translated by Cheikh Thiam
Edited by Doyle D Calhoun
Translated by Doyle D. Calhoun

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

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Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 572g

Pages: 406

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About the Author

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.