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Postcolonial Bergson (Paperback)
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Henri Bergson has been the subject of keen interest within French
philosophy ever since being championed by Gilles Deleuze and
others. Yet his influence extends well beyond European philosophy,
especially within Africa and South Asia. Postcolonial Bergson
traces the influence of Bergson’s thought through the work of two
major figures in the postcolonial struggle, Muhammad Iqbal and
Léopold Sédar Senghor. Poets and statesmen as well as
philosophers, both of these thinkers—the one Muslim and the other
Catholic—played an essential political and intellectual role in
the independence of their respective countries. Both found, in
Bergson’s work, important support for their philosophical,
cultural, and political projects. For Iqbal, a founding father of
independent Pakistan, Bergson’s conceptions of time and creative
evolution resonated with the need for the “reconstruction of
religious thought in Islam,” a religious thought newly able to
incorporate innovation and change. For Senghor, Bergsonian ideas of
perception, intuition, and élan vital—filtered in part through
the work of the French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de
Chardin—proved crucial for thinking about African art, as well as
foundational for his formulations of African socialism and his
visions of an unalienated African future. At a moment of renewed
interest in Bergson’s philosophy, this book, by a major figure in
both French and African philosophy, gives an expanded idea of the
political ramifications of Bergson’s thought in a postcolonial
context.
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