What Fanon said : a philosophical introduction to his life and thought /
Gordon, Lewis R. 1962-
What Fanon said : a philosophical introduction to his life and thought / Lewis R. Gordon. - First edition. - New York, NY : Fordham University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource. - Just ideas .
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.
9780823266111 9780823266128
Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961.
Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961 --Philosophy.
Intellectuals--Algeria--Biography.
Revolutionaries--Algeria--Biography.
Psychiatrists--Algeria--Biography.
Electronic Books.
CT2628 / .W438 2015
What Fanon said : a philosophical introduction to his life and thought / Lewis R. Gordon. - First edition. - New York, NY : Fordham University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource. - Just ideas .
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.
9780823266111 9780823266128
Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961.
Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961 --Philosophy.
Intellectuals--Algeria--Biography.
Revolutionaries--Algeria--Biography.
Psychiatrists--Algeria--Biography.
Electronic Books.
CT2628 / .W438 2015