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What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought

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By (author): Lewis R. Gordon

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 psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
Gordon takes into account scholars from across the Global South to address controversies around Fanons writings on gender and sexuality as well as political violence and the social underclass. In doing so, he confronts the replication of a colonial and racist geography of reason, allowing theorists from the Global South to emerge as interlocutors alongside northern ones in a move that exemplifies what, Gordon argues, Fanon represented in his plea to establish newer and healthier human relationships beyond colonial paradigms.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Apr 2015
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780823266098

About Lewis R. Gordon

Drucilla Cornell (Afterword By) Drucilla Cornell was Professor Emerita of Political Science Comparative Literature and Womens and Gender Studies at Rutgers University; Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Pretoria South Africa; and a visiting professor at Birkbeck College University of London. With a background in philosophy law and grassroots mobilization she played a central role in the organization of the memorable conferences on deconstruction and justice at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1989 1990 and 1993. She was the author of The Philosophy of the Limit (1992) Feminism and Pornography (2000) and Law and Revolution in South Africa: uBuntu Dignity and the Struggle for Constitutional Transformation (2014). She has also coedited several books: Feminism as Critique: On the Politics of Gender (1987) with Seyla Benhabib; and Hegel and Legal Theory (1991) and Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice (1992) with David Gray Carlson and Michel Rosenfeld. She was part of a philosophical exchange with Seyla Benhabib Judith Butler and Nancy Fraser entitled Feminist Contentions (1995). In addition to her academic work she wrote four produced plays. Lewis R. Gordon (Author) Lewis R. Gordon is Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut Storrs; European Union Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès France; and Nelson Mandela Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rhodes University South Africa. His books include Existentia Africana; Disciplinary Decadence; An Introduction to Africana Philosophy; and with Jane Anna Gordon Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age. Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun (Foreword By) Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun is University Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences at the University of Paris-Diderot.

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