“Decolonizing the History of Philosophy” | Souleymane Bachir Diagne

On October 26, 2017 Souleymane Bachir Diagne gave the Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Lecture on "Decolonizing the History of Philosophy" at the University of Halle, Germany.
Souleymane Bachir Diagne is currently Professor of Francophone Studies, and Chair of the Department of French and Romance Philology with a secondary appointment in the Department of Philosophy, at Columbia University in New York. His field of research and teaching interests includes the history of logic and mathematics, history of philosophy, Islamic philosophy and Sufism, African philosophy and literature.
The Anthon-Wilhelm-Amo-Lecture is organised by the Research Cluster "Society and Culture in Motion", the DFG Priority Program 1448 "Adaptation and Creativity in Africa" and the LOST Research Network.
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[@hamzanaseem6079]

Incredibly honored to have taken a class with him at Columbia. Perhaps my best class to date. It was a refreshing time away from accounts, economics and international relations.

[@blackpoet40]

My philosophical father. Thank you for your work Professor Diagne.

[@lewistonsmith6179]

I deeply enjoyed this lecture. It deals with a discourse that has to continue...

[@lutherkingdiadia8701]

My deep gratitude to you mister DIAGNE

[@gayfalk9963]

absolutely crucial discourse

[@wiiuwiiu2020]

Absolutely brilliant, thank you very much for this!

[@Assane__Gueye]

Thanks very much.
Very useful .

[@cherifjalaloba6931]

Very important

[@johnstewart7025]

stimulating talk. Weren't muslim philosophers, even those in Timbuktu, largely working on Greek philosophy?

[@marshacreary2442]

Interesting

[@javohirnematov8826]

1:12 Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was born in present-day Uzbekistan, not Iran

[@bambaniang6620]

Hegel, Levinas, Husserls should be banished as thinkers...Hegel has a minus aggravating because of his deficiencies in geography....I believe we need to redefine who should be considered a worthy philosopher. A philosopher who defends racism, excludes a large part of humanity from humanity is not worthy of being called as such. We can continue to study these pseudo philosophers from a historical point of view with the aim of understanding the evils of the past and preventing their nonsense from being repeated again in the contemporary or future world.