سليمان بشير ديان

سليمان بشير ديان Souleymane Bachir Diagne (و.1955) ، هوفيلسوف سنغالي ولد في سانت لويس ، السنغال. ويركز في عمله على تاريخ المنطق ، الرياضيات ، نظرية الفهم ، وتقليد الفلسفة في العالم الإسلامي ، الهوية ، التشكل ، والأداب الأفريقية والفلسفة.

بعد حصوله على البكالوريا في السنغال ، التحق بمدرسة ليسيه لويس الأكبر في باريس ، ليواصل خطاه ، لنحونصف قرن من الزمان ، من موطنه وأول رئيس للسنغال Léopold Sédar Senghor. There he prepared for the entrance exams to the École Normale Supérieure, meanwhile receiving his license and maîtrise level degrees in philosophy at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. At the École Normale Supérieure he studied with Althusser and Derrida. After receiving his agrégation in Philosophy (1978), Diagne spent a year at Harvard University in an exchange program. In 1982 he defended a doctoral thesis in mathematics at Université Paris I, where, in 1988, he also completed his doctorat d’Etat, under the direction of Jean-Toussaint Desanti, on George Boole’s algebra of logic.

في عام 1982 عاد ديان إلى وطنه الأصلي وقام بتدريس مادة الفلسفة في جامعة الشيخ أنتاديوب في دكار ، حيث أصبح نائب عميد كلية العلوم الإنسانية. وقام الرئيس السابق عبده ضيوف ، بتعيينه مستشاره التعليمي والثقافي ، حيث شغل المنصب من 1993-1999.

Diagne is co-director of Éthiopiques, a Senegalese journal of literature and philosophy and a member of the editorial committees of numerous scholarly journals, including the Revue d’histoire des mathématiques, Présence africaine, and Public Culture. He is a member of the scientific committees of Diogenes (published by UNESCO’s International Counsel of Philosophy and Social Sciences), CODESRIA (Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique), and of the African and Malagasy Committee for Higher Education (CAMES), as well as UNESCO’s Council on the Future. He has been named by Le Nouvel observateur one of the 50 thinkers of our time. In October 2007 he was invited to participate in a white paper commission on the defense and national security in the French Senate in Paris.

His main publications include two books on George Boole, a book on the Indian poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal, Islam et société ouverte. La fidélité et le mouvement dans la pensée de Muhammad Iqbal (2001) and an examination of Senghor’s philosophy, Léopold Sédar Senghor. L’Art africain c o m m e p h i l o s o p h i e (2007). He is currently working on a book on Islam and philosophy: Comment philosopher en Islam.

Having taught for several years at in the departments of Philosophy and Religion at Northwestern University (2002 to 2007), Diagne is currently Professor of French, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Philosophy, at Columbia University in نيويورك.

الهامش

^ Columbia University Institute of African Studies Fall 2008 Events Calendar
^ Video of the white paper commission hearing (in French)
^ Columbia University Department of French and Romance Philology Annual Newsletter, December 2007

مختارات من خطه

Léopold Sédar Senghor: l’art africain comme philosophie. Paris: Riveneuve Editions, 2007.
100 mots pour dire l’islam. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2002.
Islam et société ouverte, la fidélité et le mouvement dans la pensée de Muhammad Iqbal. Paris : Maisonneuve & Larose, 2001.
Logique pour philosophes. Dakar: Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Sénégal, 1991 .
Boole, l’oiseau de nuit en plein jour. Paris: Belin, 1989.