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What Fanon said : a philosophical introduction to his life and thought / Lewis R. Gordon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, (c)2015.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823266111
  • 9780823266128
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • CT2628 .W438 2015
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Contents:
I am from Martinique -- Writing through the zone of nonbeing -- Living experience, embodying possibility -- Revolutionary therapy -- Counseling the damned -- Requiem for the messenger.
Subject: Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an exemplar of ""living thought"" against forms of reason marked by colonialism and racism. Working from his own translations of the original French texts, Gordon critically engages everything in Fanon from dialectics, ethics, existentialism, and humanism to philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and political theory as well as ps.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

On what a great thinker said -- I am from Martinique -- Writing through the zone of nonbeing -- Living experience, embodying possibility -- Revolutionary therapy -- Counseling the damned -- Requiem for the messenger.

Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an exemplar of ""living thought"" against forms of reason marked by colonialism and racism. Working from his own translations of the original French texts, Gordon critically engages everything in Fanon from dialectics, ethics, existentialism, and humanism to philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and political theory as well as ps.

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