Postcolonial BergsonPub Date : 2019-10-08DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823285839.003.0006
S. Diagne
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"S. Diagne","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823285839.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823285839.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Diagne concludes with the the Bergsonism that Senghor and Iqbal each shaped for the purposes of their respective thought. Senghor’s Bergson was the Bergson of vital understanding who emphasized that “the intellect is characterized by a natural inability to comprehend life.” As for Muhammad Iqbal’s Bergsonism, Diage goes back to the word “affinity” to describe Iqbal’s relationship to Bergson’s philosophy. Rather than “applying” Bergson’s concepts, Iqbal truly thought withhim.","PeriodicalId":172007,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Bergson","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122008986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bergson, Iqbal, and the Concept Of Ijtihad","authors":"S. Diagne","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvp2n3bx.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvp2n3bx.7","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents the trajectory of Muhammad Iqbal, “founding father of Pakistan” and an important reformist philosopher of Islam, examining the connections between Bergsonian philosophy of creative evolution and becoming-individual and the Iqbalian aim of a reconstruction and revivification of Islamic thought founded on the notion of the human ego working as collaborator with God in its own realization. For Iqbal, this vision of Islam as an open system of thought able to evolve and accommodate newness—as opposed to models of strictly fixed juridical knowledge and judgment—is centered in the concept of itjihad. This concept, in turn, is at the heart what makes this renewed Islam a viable structure for the organization of the new nation he worked to bring about.","PeriodicalId":172007,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Bergson","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125457237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Senghor’s African Socialism","authors":"S. Diagne","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvp2n3bx.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvp2n3bx.6","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter is devoted to Senghor’s political writings, showing what Senghor—as a statesman—owes to Bergson’s thought, an influence that occurs largely through the work of French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, himself strongly influenced by Bergson. In Teilhard de Chardin and Bergson’s work, Senghor finds the Marxist humanist framework for his theory of “African socialism”: a vitalist, spiritualist vision of society in which Bergsonian élan vital, Teilhard de Chardin’s notion of cosmogenesis,and a Marxist version of total liberation from the forces of alienation combine to bring about a true humanism. At the moment of decolonization in Africa, this vision shapes the contours of Senghor’s ideas for the planning and organization of the newly independent nations.","PeriodicalId":172007,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Bergson","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116878413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bergsonism in the Thought of Léopold Sédar Senghor","authors":"S. Diagne","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvp2n3bx.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvp2n3bx.5","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the role of Bergson’s thought in Léopold Sédar Senghor’s philosophy of Negritude, showing how the distinction between modes of perception made by Bergson is integral to Senghor’s characterization of African art. For Senghor, Bergson’s distinction between modes of knowing and perception (an analytic, separating intelligence versus a comprehending or synthetic intelligence) is translated into the distinction between the “reason-eye” characteristic of Western aesthetic perception and the “reason-embrace” integral to the full experience of African art. Recognizing that this distinction between modes is between “two depths of the soul” rather than “two [fundamentally different] souls” not only defends Senghor’s thought against accusations that it is the unacknowledged reprisal of French philosopher and anthropologist Lucien Lévy-Bruhl’s theories of primitive mentality, but also leads away from a relatively common view of this thought as reductively essentializing.","PeriodicalId":172007,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Bergson","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126520202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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