{"product_id":"the-essential-senghor-african-philosophy-and-black-aesthetics-paperback","title":"The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLéopold Sédar Senghor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDoyle D. Calhoun\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAlioune B. Fall\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSenegalese poet, philosopher, and politician Leopold 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Senghor\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Senghor\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLéopold Sédar Senghor (1906-2001) was a poet, philosopher, and the first president of Senegal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Doyle D. Calhoun is University Assistant Professor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alioune B. Fall is Assistant Professor of Black Studies and French at Providence College. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Cheikh Thiam is Department Chair of English and Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 406\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 14, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45573445091430,"sku":"9781478038603","price":65.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/FqOTvJCdZy9781478038603.webp?v=1777495835","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-essential-senghor-african-philosophy-and-black-aesthetics-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}