Postcolonial Bergson

Souleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor of French and Philosophy and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. His areas of research and publication include history of philosophy, history of logic and mathematics, Islamic philosophy, and African philosophy and literature. His latest publications in English include Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with Western Tradition (Columbia University Press, 2018); Postcolonial Bergson (Fordham University Press, 2019); In Search of Africa(s): Universalism and Decolonial Thought (with Jean-Loup Amselle, Polity, 2020); African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude (Other Press, 2023).Lindsay Turner is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of two collections of poetry and has translated books by Stéphane Bouquet, Éric Baratay, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Anne Dufourmantelle, Richard Rechtman, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and others.John E. Drabinski is Professor of African American Studies and English at the University of Maryland. He is author of So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic (Northwestern, 2025), Glissant and the Middle Passage: Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss (Minnesota, 2019), Theorizing Glissant: Sites and Citations (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015), Levinas and the Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other (Edinburgh, 2011), Godard Between Identity and Difference (Continuum, 2008), and Sensibility and Singularity: The Problem of Phenomenology in Levinas (SUNY, 2001).

• Foreword: Locating the Postcolonial Idea viiJohn E. DrabinskiIntroduction 11 Bergsonism in the Thought of Léopold Sédar Senghor 212 Senghor's African Socialism 373 Bergson, Iqbal, and the Concept of Ijtihad 574 Time and Fatalism: Iqbal on Islamic Fatalism 77Conclusion 95Acknowledgments 99Notes 101Index 117