East Gallery, Buell Hall
Co-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Francaise, Institute of African Studies, Department of Philosophy, and Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
Bachir Diagne discusses his latest book, L’encre des savants (The Ink of the Scholars), which examines African philosophy and the rich literature it has produced. That literature is presented and discussed through four major questions: ontology and African art, orality and literacy, the concept of time, and African socialisms and human rights.
Souleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor of French and Philosophy at Columbia University. His books include Comment philosopher en Islam and Islam and the Open Society: Fidelity and Movement in the Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal.
Vincent Debaene is Associate Professor of French at Columbia.
