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Open to Reason - Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition (Paperback): Souleymane Bachir Diagne Open to Reason - Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition (Paperback)
Souleymane Bachir Diagne; Translated by Jonathan Adjemian
R592 R482 Discovery Miles 4 820 Save R110 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What does it mean to be a Muslim philosopher, or to philosophize in Islam? In Open to Reason, Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces Muslims' intellectual and spiritual history of examining and questioning beliefs and arguments to show how Islamic philosophy has always engaged critically with texts and ideas both inside and outside its tradition. Through a rich reading of classical and modern Muslim philosophers, Diagne explains the long history of philosophy in the Islamic world and its relevance to crucial issues of our own time. From classical figures such as Avicenna to the twentieth-century Sufi master and teacher of tolerance Tierno Bokar Salif Tall, Diagne explores how Islamic thinkers have asked and answered such questions as Does religion need philosophy? How can religion coexist with rationalism? What does it mean to interpret a religious narrative philosophically? What does it mean to be human, and what are human beings' responsibilities to nature? Is there such a thing as an "Islamic" state, or should Muslims reinvent political institutions that suit their own times? Diagne shows that philosophizing in Islam in its many forms throughout the centuries has meant a commitment to forward and open thinking. A remarkable history of philosophy in the Islamic world as well as a work of philosophy in its own right, this book seeks to contribute to the revival of a spirit of pluralism rooted in Muslim intellectual and spiritual traditions.

African Art As Philosophy - Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude (Paperback): Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Chike Jeffers African Art As Philosophy - Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude (Paperback)
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Chike Jeffers
R518 R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Save R48 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Open to Reason - Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition (Hardcover): Souleymane Bachir Diagne Open to Reason - Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition (Hardcover)
Souleymane Bachir Diagne; Translated by Jonathan Adjemian
R683 R605 Discovery Miles 6 050 Save R78 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What does it mean to be a Muslim philosopher, or to philosophize in Islam? In Open to Reason, Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces Muslims' intellectual and spiritual history of examining and questioning beliefs and arguments to show how Islamic philosophy has always engaged critically with texts and ideas both inside and outside its tradition. Through a rich reading of classical and modern Muslim philosophers, Diagne explains the long history of philosophy in the Islamic world and its relevance to crucial issues of our own time. From classical figures such as Avicenna to the twentieth-century Sufi master and teacher of tolerance Tierno Bokar Salif Tall, Diagne explores how Islamic thinkers have asked and answered such questions as Does religion need philosophy? How can religion coexist with rationalism? What does it mean to interpret a religious narrative philosophically? What does it mean to be human, and what are human beings' responsibilities to nature? Is there such a thing as an "Islamic" state, or should Muslims reinvent political institutions that suit their own times? Diagne shows that philosophizing in Islam in its many forms throughout the centuries has meant a commitment to forward and open thinking. A remarkable history of philosophy in the Islamic world as well as a work of philosophy in its own right, this book seeks to contribute to the revival of a spirit of pluralism rooted in Muslim intellectual and spiritual traditions.

African Meditations (Paperback): Felwine Sarr African Meditations (Paperback)
Felwine Sarr; Translated by Drew S. Burk; Foreword by Souleymane Bachir Diagne
R587 R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Save R87 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An influential thinker’s fascinating reflections and meditations on reacclimating to his native Senegal as a young academic after years of study abroad   The call to morning prayer. A group run at daybreak along the Corniche in Dakar. A young woman shedding tears on a beach as her friends take a boat to Europe. In African Meditations, paths to enlightenment collide with tales of loss and ruminations, musical gatherings, and the everyday sights and sounds of life in West Africa as a young philosopher and creative writer seeks to establish himself as a teacher upon his return to Senegal, his homeland, after years of study abroad.  A unique contemporary portrait of an influential, multicultural thinker on a spiritual quest across continents—reflecting on his multiple literary influences along with French, African Francophone, and Senegalese tribal cultural roots in a homeland with a predominantly Muslim culture—African Meditations is a seamless blend of autobiography, journal entries, and fiction; aphorisms and brief narrative sketches; humor and Zen reflections.  Taking us from Saint-Louis to Dakar, Felwine Sarr encounters the rhythms of everyday life as well as its disruptions such as teachers’ strikes and power outages while traversing a semi-surrealistic landscape. As he reacclimates to his native country after a life in France, we get candid glimpses, both vibrant and hopeful, sublime and mundane, into his Zen journey to resecure a foothold in his roots and to navigate academia, even while gleaning something of the good life, of joy, amid the struggles of life in Senegal. 

Nostalgia - When Are We Ever at Home? (Hardcover): Barbara Cassin Nostalgia - When Are We Ever at Home? (Hardcover)
Barbara Cassin; Translated by Pascale-Anne Brault; Foreword by Souleymane Bachir Diagne
R1,797 Discovery Miles 17 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Winner, French Voices Grand Prize Nostalgia makes claims on us both as individuals and as members of a political community. In this short book, Barbara Cassin provides an eloquent and sophisticated treatment of exile and of desire for a homeland, while showing how it has been possible for many to reimagine home in terms of language rather than territory. Moving from Homer's and Virgil's foundational accounts of nostalgia to the exilic writings of Hannah Arendt, Cassin revisits the dangerous implications of nostalgia for land and homeland, thinking them anew through questions of exile and language. Ultimately, Cassin shows how contemporary philosophy opens up the political stakes of rootedness and uprootedness, belonging and foreignness, helping us to reimagine our relations to others in a global and plurilingual world.

Nostalgia - When Are We Ever at Home? (Paperback): Barbara Cassin Nostalgia - When Are We Ever at Home? (Paperback)
Barbara Cassin; Translated by Pascale-Anne Brault; Foreword by Souleymane Bachir Diagne
R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Winner, French Voices Grand Prize Nostalgia makes claims on us both as individuals and as members of a political community. In this short book, Barbara Cassin provides an eloquent and sophisticated treatment of exile and of desire for a homeland, while showing how it has been possible for many to reimagine home in terms of language rather than territory. Moving from Homer's and Virgil's foundational accounts of nostalgia to the exilic writings of Hannah Arendt, Cassin revisits the dangerous implications of nostalgia for land and homeland, thinking them anew through questions of exile and language. Ultimately, Cassin shows how contemporary philosophy opens up the political stakes of rootedness and uprootedness, belonging and foreignness, helping us to reimagine our relations to others in a global and plurilingual world.

Postcolonial Bergson (Paperback): Souleymane Bachir Diagne Postcolonial Bergson (Paperback)
Souleymane Bachir Diagne; Translated by Lindsay Turner; Foreword by John E. Drabinski
R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

The Ink of the Scholars - Reflections on Philosophy in Africa (Paperback): Souleymane Bachir Diagne The Ink of the Scholars - Reflections on Philosophy in Africa (Paperback)
Souleymane Bachir Diagne; Translated by Jonathan Adjemian
R844 Discovery Miles 8 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Islam and Open Society Fidelity and Movement in the Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal (Paperback): Souleymane Bachir Diagne Islam and Open Society Fidelity and Movement in the Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal (Paperback)
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
R966 Discovery Miles 9 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the atmosphere of suspicion and anger that characterizes our time, it is a joy to hear the voice of Iqbal, both passionate and serene. It is the voice of a soul that is deeply anchored in the Quranic Revelation, and precisely for that reason, open to all the other voices, seeking in them the path of his own fidelity. It is the voice of a man who has left behind all identitarian rigidity, who has 'broken all the idols of tribe and caste' to address himself to all human beings. But an unhappy accident has meant that this voice was buried, both in the general forgetting of Islamic modernism and in the very country that he named before its existence, Pakistan, whose multiple rigidities - political, religious, military - constitute a continual refutation of the very essence of his thought. But we all need to hear him again, citizens of the West, Muslims, and those from his native India, where a form of Hindu chauvinism rages in our times, in a way that exceeds his worst fears. Souleymane Bachir Diagne has done all of us an immense favor in making this voice heard once again, clear and convincing. Charles Taylor, Professor, McGill University Quebec, Canada

Postcolonial Bergson (Hardcover): Souleymane Bachir Diagne Postcolonial Bergson (Hardcover)
Souleymane Bachir Diagne; Translated by Lindsay Turner; Foreword by John E. Drabinski
R1,994 Discovery Miles 19 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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 Leopold Sedar 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 elan 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.

Pour nous reconstruire et redevenir nous-memes - Pour redonner du sens a la tradition (suivi de) (French, Paperback): Bwemba... Pour nous reconstruire et redevenir nous-memes - Pour redonner du sens a la tradition (suivi de) (French, Paperback)
Bwemba Bong, Souleymane Bachir Diagne
R315 Discovery Miles 3 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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