Reading notes, reviews and notable publications; access to the sub-sites’ catalogues and tables of contents.
Necropolitics
An essay exploring the relation of enmity that keeps reconfiguring itself at a planetary scale, drawing on the work of Frantz Fanon, and, beyond humanism, laying the foundations for a politics of humanity.
La Découverte, 2016
“For the Mvett to speak, philosophy had to become practical.” A phenomenological and ethical approach showing how the Mvett stages, in its own way, the categories of Otherness and Transcendence.
L’Harmattan, 2014
The Ink of Scholars. Reflections on Philosophy in Africa
In the collection “Philosophy in Every Letter”, Bachir Diagne offers reading paths into African philosophical thought: ontology, time, orality as heritage, and politics.
Présence Africaine, 2013
Postcolonial Oral Traditions
The fruit of encounters held at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, 2012), on orality, memory, amnesia and reconciliation.
L’Harmattan, 2014
Negro-African Philosophy of Existence
A thesis defended in 1967, published 46 years later, on the discreet yet constant problematic of the meaning of existence in Black Africa.
L’Harmattan, 2013
Shortly before his death (2 July 2014), the ardent defender of a “serious” African philosophy published his doctoral thesis, an odyssey of reason as critique of reason.
