L’universalisme de Senghor

At the end of the 1950s, Senghor developed the concept of “Civilization of the Universal”, borrowed from Teilhard de Chardin, with a view to a “new humanism” freed from Western ethnocentrism, and enriched by the idea of Négritude. The aim is to retrace the genesis and analyze the challenges of this...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dominique Combe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut des textes & manuscrits modernes (ITEM) 2024-10-01
Series:Continents manuscrits
Subjects:
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/coma/12840
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:At the end of the 1950s, Senghor developed the concept of “Civilization of the Universal”, borrowed from Teilhard de Chardin, with a view to a “new humanism” freed from Western ethnocentrism, and enriched by the idea of Négritude. The aim is to retrace the genesis and analyze the challenges of this concept since the 1930s, based on its philosophical and religious sources (Teilhard de Chardin, Maritain), in order to better understand Senghor’s universalism, reduced by his opponents to a neo-colonialist platitude.
ISSN:2275-1742