Bergson drew attention to the imperfections of Western society

Négritude (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Senghor is as much a thinker of “métissage” (mixture) than he is a thinker of c. His watchword, “everyone must be mixed in their own way” is as central to Négritude as the defense and illustration of the values of civilization of the black world. There is in fact a de-racialized use of the word “nègre” by Senghor which is crucial to understand why painter Pablo Picasso, poets Paul Claudel, Charles Péguy or Arthur Rimbaud, philosopher Henri Bergson, etc. have been somehow enrolled by Senghor under the banner of “Négritude”. The message being, ultimately and maybe not so paradoxically, that one does not have to be black to be a “nègre”. 

Léopold Sédar Senghor: an intellectual biography, Jacques Louis Hymans - 1971 - 312 pages

To Rene Menil, Senghor was the 'principal theorist' of negritude. In Senghor, Menil, found a development of 'mystic and ... Cesaire, Senghor, and their disciples adore Novalis, Frobenius, Bergson, the Surrealists - all of them ...

The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and ... Donna V. Jones - 2010 - 240 pages

Particularly influential for the literary and political Négritude movement of the 1930s, which opposed French colonialism, Bergson's life philosophy formed an appealing alternative to Western modernity, decried as "mechanical," and set the ...

The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought - Page 328, F. Abiola Irele, Biodun Jeyifo - 2010 - 1024 pages

Blackness, or Négritude, resides essentially in the participation, in an immediate way or at a remove (as in the case ... Senghor reinterpreted these European thinkers in the perspective opened up by the epistemology of Henri Bergson, ... Page 340 Tempels posited a “vitalist force,” which he appropriated from Bergson, as the driving force of the epistemic ... Senghor posits a collective African consciousness, which, according to him, is different from that of the white race. ...

Self and Community in a Changing World - Page 281, D. A. Masolo - 2010 - 352 pages

Senghor, Liberté, tome 1, Négritude et Humanisme (Paris: Seuil, 1964), 22–25. 70. Léopold S. Senghor, On African ... It is not clear to me, for example, thatBergson and Senghor were not deeply Cartesian in their emphasis of the ...

Postcolonial thought in the French-speaking world, Charles Forsdick, David Murphy - 2009 - 256 pages

Negritude and colonial humanism Born in the south-western coastal region of Sine,Senghor was the son of a wealthy ... He had discovered jazz, the Harlem Renaissance, Picasso, the anti-rationalist writings of Henri Bergson and the ...

Deleuze and queer theory - Page 104, Chrysanthi Nigianni, Merl Storr - 2009 - 189 pages

may be said to remain united with the totality of living beings by invisible bonds' (Bergson 1998: 43). ... Négritude writers such as Aimé Césaire and Léopold SédarSenghor opposed this dynamic by propounding the necessity of the ...

When culture becomes politics: European identity in perspective, Thomas Pedersen - 2008 - 311 pages

Finally, the Euro-African philosophy of "negritude" espoused ia by Bergson, Sartre and Senghor, is an interesting example of a cross-civilizational meeting of minds with Europe in the role of listener. Inter-civilizational grafting may ...

The Black renaissance in Francophone African and Caribbean literatures, K. Martial Frindéthié, Martial Kokroa Frindéthié - 2008 - 209 pages

In his definition of Negritude, Senghor offers two perspectives, one objective, and the other subjective. ... As I indicated earlier, the ideals of Nietzsche, Hegel,Bergson, and Frobenius were born out of European rationalism. ...

Race, culture, and identity: francophone West African and ... - Page 133, Shireen K. Lewis - 2006 - 166 pages

The term "Negro African" is used by Frobenius to describe Africans and is also used by Senghor, as we will see later. 24. Other anthropologists of the period who influenced Negritude founders were ...

Sartre today: a centenary celebration - Page 288, Adrian Van den Hoven, Andrew N. Leak - 2005 - 330 pages

Taking his cue from Bergson and Claudel, Senghor rejects the dualistic theory of Cartesianism, which prioritizes mind over ... Senghor acknowledges the indebtedness of negritude to the surrealist movement, namely, to the influence of ..

Global Ramifications of the French Revolution - Page 121, Joseph Klaits, Michael Haltzel - 2002 - 224 pages

The concept of the civilization of the universal is one that Senghor takes from Teilhard de Chardin; it is his vision of a cultural millennium in which discrete, essential identities such as negritude will all be assumed to a ...

West African responses to European imperialism in the nineteenth ..., Festus Ugboaja Ohaegbulam - 2002 - 386 pages

philosopher Henri Bergson drew attention to the imperfections of Western society, including Western imperialism and thus ... Leopold Sedar Senghor: The Leading Apostle of Negritude Leopold Sedar Senghor, a poet, professor, philosopher, ...

Negritude women - Page 150, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting - 2002 - 168 pages

The Management, "Our Aim," La Revue du monde noir 1 (October 1931): 2. 11. Henri Bergson, "Nos enquetes," La Revue du monde ... Senghor biographer Hymans insists that Senghor could not have developed his Negritude without Paulette ...

Beyond the experience of limits: theory, criticism, and power in ... Yakubu Abdullahi Nasidi - 2001 - 129 pages

With Senghor, the cultural racism endemic to the colonial situation became essentially a problem of misperception and ignorance, which the contributions of an African humanism, founded upon Negritude, would help to dispel. ...

Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy - Page 110, Edward Craig - 1998 - 33 pages

Rather than a contingent factor of black collective existence and consciousness as with Sartre (for Senghor this aspect corresponds to what he calls 'subjectivenegritude'), the concept denotes for Senghor an enduring quality of being ...

Ecocritique: contesting the politics of nature, economy, and culture - Page 57, Timothy W. Luke - 1997 - 253 pages

Bergson responded to his own query: "Because the white man thinks the Negro is disguised. ... Negritude — particularly the call for a new black literature, the rehabilitation of Africa and black values, black humanism, and cultural ...

Double-consciousness/double bind: theoretical issues in ... - Page 33, Sandra Adell - 1994 - 172 pages

This was an important lesson for Senghor who insists that "it is Frobenius who, more than all the others, more than Bergson, even, redeemed in our eyes intuitive reason and restored it to its place: to first place. ...

Comparative literature and African literatures, Albert S. Gérard, C. F. Swanepoel, University ... - 1993 - 273 pages

Rationalism had been attacked from above by Bergson and from below by Freud. Levy-Bruhl had emphasised the ... Aime Cesaire from Martinique and Leopold Senghor from Senegal elaborated the concept of negritude as the image ...

Contexts of African literature - Page 51, Albert S. Gérard - 1990 - 169 pages
Rationalism had been attacked from above by Bergson and from below by Freud. Levy-Bruhl had emphasized the ... Aime Cesaire from Martinique and LeopoldSenghor from Senegal elaborated the concept of negritude as the image of a mode of ...

The African experience in literature and ideology, Abiola Irele - 1990 - 217 pages

It is largely the epistemology of Bergson that Senghor has adopted in his formulation of Negritude.41 I Besides, Bergson's philosophy is itself the systematic conceptual articulation of what one might call the 'Romantic vision'. ... Nigeria magazine Duckworth, Edward Harland, Nigeria. Education ... – 1978 Nigeria magazine Edward Harland Duckworth, Nigeria. Education ... – 1975 [Black, French, and African: A Life of Léopold Sédar Senghor]