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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812550003321

Autore

Gordon Lewis R.

Titolo

What Fanon Said : A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought / / Lewis R. Gordon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-8232-6612-5

0-8232-6611-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Just Ideas

Altri autori (Persone)

CornellDrucilla

Dayan-HerzbrunSonia

Disciplina

616.890092

B

Soggetti

Psychiatrists - Algeria

Revolutionaries - Algeria

Intellectuals - Algeria

Algeria Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction. On What a Great Th inker Said -- 1. “I Am from Martinique” -- 2. Writing through the Zone of Nonbeing -- 3. Living Experience, Embodying Possibility -- 4. Revolutionary Therapy -- 5. Counseling the Damned -- Conclusion. Requiem for the Messenger -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 Fanon’s 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.