{"id":1111,"date":"2016-12-07T12:34:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T17:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2016-12-08T07:12:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T12:12:15","slug":"souleymane-bachir-diagne-art-as-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/souleymane-bachir-diagne-art-as-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Souleymane Bachir Diagne | Art as Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is Nietzsche such an important name (with Henri Bergson) in the genealogy of the Negritude movement? Because Negritude ultimately means \u201cart as philosophy\u201d.\u00a0In\u00a0other words, art is knowledge, is an approach of\u00a0reality other than analytical: a truth manifested, according to Negritude writers, through the generally non-mimetic nature of African art.<\/p>\n<p>So when Aim\u00e9 Cesaire\u2019s poetical action found its most powerful expression in theater (this is also true of\u00a0L\u00e9opold S\u00e9dar Senghor as the author of <em>Chaka<\/em>) Nietzsche\u2019s <em>Origin of Tragedy\u00a0<\/em>became, quite naturally, his \u201cbreviary\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is Nietzsche such an important name (with Henri Bergson) in the genealogy of the Negritude movement? Because Negritude ultimately means \u201cart as philosophy\u201d.\u00a0In\u00a0other words, art is knowledge, is an approach of\u00a0reality other than analytical: a truth manifested, according to&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/souleymane-bachir-diagne-art-as-philosophy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1874,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38959],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts-6-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/nietzsche1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}