African philosophers, thinkers of the world

Souleymane Bachir Diagne, the humanist who brings the worlds into dialogue

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Souleymane Bachir Diagne.

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By: Laurent Correau Follow

Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a philosopher born in Senegal in 1955. His thought, very eclectic, embraces fields as varied as logic, philosophy of science, Islamic philosophy, African philosophy.

A humanist thinker of the 20th and 21st centuries, Souleymane Bachir Diagne re-explores the idea of ​​a “lateral universal” proposed by Merleau-Ponty.

He defends translation as an important tool in this co-construction of the universal.

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Souleymane Bachir Diagne is notably the author of

(2007) and 

(2008).

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