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The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics book cover by Léopold Sédar Senghor
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The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics

by Léopold Sédar Senghor

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Hardcover · 406 pages Duke University Press · 2026

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The Essential Senghor

Senegalese 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. 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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Publisher
Duke University Press
Author
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Format
Hardcover
Published
Apr 14, 2026
ISBN-13
9781478033677
ISBN-10
1478033673
Pages
406
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