L’universalisme de Senghor

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• Africa
• colonialism
• Senghor (Léopold Sédar)
• Negritude
• civilization
• universal