TY  - BOOK
AU  - Diagne, Souleymane Bachir.
TI  - African art as philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the idea of negritude
SN  - 9781906497897
U1  - 848.914BAC 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Seagull Books
KW  - Senghor, Léopold Sédar, 1906-2001
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-210)
N2  - Lǒpold Sďar Senghor (1906?2001) was a Senegalese poet and philosopher who in 1960 also became the first president of the Republic of Senegal. In African Art as Philosophy, Souleymane Bachir Diagne takes a unique approach to reading Senghor?s influential works, taking as the starting point for his analysis Henri Bergson?s idea that in order to understand philosophers one must find the initial intuition from which every aspect of their work develops. In the case of Senghor, Diagne argues that his primordial intuition is that African art is a philosophy
ER  -