Description

Fanon and the Decolonization of Philosophy explores the range of ways in which Frantz Fanon's decolonization theory can reveal new answers to perennial philosophical questions and new paths to social justice. The aim is to show not just that Fanon's thought remains philosophically relevant, but that it is relevant to an even wider range of philosophical issues than has previously been realized. The essays in this book are written by both renowned Fanon scholars and new scholars who are emerging as experts in aspects of Fanonian thought as diverse as humanistic psychiatry, the colonial roots of racial violence and marginalization, and decolonizing possibilities in law, academia, and tourism. In addition to examining philosophical concerns that arise from political decolonization movements, many of the essays turn to the discipline of philosophy itself and take up the challenge of suggesting ways that philosophy might liberate itself from colonial-and colonizing-assumptions.

This collection will be useful to those interested in political theory, feminist theory, existentialism, phenomenology, Africana studies, and Caribbean philosophy. Its Fanon-inspired vision of social justice is endorsed in the foreword by his daughter, Mireille Fanon-Mendès France, a noted human rights defender in the French-speaking world.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 I: ON KNOWLEDGE AND THE ACADEMY
Chapter 4 1: Fanon on Decolonizing Knowledge
Chapter 5 2: Opening up the Academy: Fanon's Lessons for Inclusive Scholarship
Part 6 ON FANON AND PSYCHIATRY
Chapter 7 3: Fanonian Musings: Decolonizing/Philosophy/Psychiatry
Chapter 8 4. Fanon, Foucault, and the Politics of Psychiatry
Part 9 III: ON FANON AND VIOLENCE
Chapter 10 5: Fanon on Turtle Island: Revisiting the Question of Violence
Chapter 11 6: Sovereign Violence, Racial Violence
Part 12 IV: FANON ON RACISM AND SEXUALITY
Chapter 13 8: Fanon and the Impossibilities of Love in the Colonial Order
Part 15 V: BEYOND COLONIZATION
Chapter 15 7: Decolonizing Selves: The Subtler Violences of Colonialism and Racism in Fanon, Said, and Anzaldúa
Chapter 16 9: Hegel, Fanon, and the Problem of Negativity in the Postcolonial
Chapter 17 10: Tourism as Racism: Fanon and the Vestiges of Colonialism
Part 18 VI: BEYOND FANON
Chapter 19 11: Amilcar Cabral: A Philosophical Profile
Chapter 20 12: Fanonian Presences in South Africa: From Theory and from Practice
Chapter 21 Suggestions for Further Reading

Product details

Published 08 Mar 2010
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 1
ISBN 9781978781559
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Elizabeth A. Hoppe

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Tracey Nicholls

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