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Author Gordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo), 1962-

Title What Fanon said : a philosophical introduction to his life and thought / Lewis R. Gordon
Edition First edition
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Just ideas
Just ideas.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Analysis Africana phenomenology
Africana philosophy
Black political thought
Existentialism
Frantz Fanon
Negritude
creolization
decolonial thought
dialectics
humanism
postcolonial thought
revolutionary thought
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961.
Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961 -- Philosophy
SUBJECT Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961 -- Philosophy
Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961
Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961 fast
Subject Intellectuals -- Algeria -- Biography
Revolutionaries -- Algeria -- Biography
Psychiatrists -- Algeria -- Biography
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Intellectuals
Philosophy
Psychiatrists
Revolutionaries
Intellektuella.
Revolutionära.
SUBJECT Algeria -- Biography
Subject Algeria
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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