Books by Souleymane Bachir Diagne

La Collection Illmatik de Congo Lobi Lelo a pour ambition de décrypter et de partager les savoirs et les textes que nous considérons comme importants pour ne pas dire essentiels pour les générations Triple A (Afro, ambitieux, activistes). Produites sous forme d'interviews, la Collection Illmatik s'attache à produire, proposer et diffuser, à travers des formats courts, des idées "africaines" qui nous font avancer.

"First published in French as En quaete de Afrique(s): universalisme et pensaee de coloniale, A Albin Michel, 2018"--title page verso.

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.

Open to Reason traces Muslims' long intellectual and spiritual history of questioning 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, Souleymane Bachir Diagne explains their relevance to our own time.

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 n political, religious, military n 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