Franz Fanon

Informationen zum Autor Nigel C. Gibson is Director of the Honors Program at Emerson College, Boston, and a research associate in the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University and the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. Klappentext Frantz Fanon was a French psychiatrist turned Algerian revolutionary of Martinican origin, and one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the postwar period. A veritable "intellect on fire," Fanon was a radical thinker with original theories on race, revolution, violence, identity and agency. This book is an excellent introduction to the ideas and legacy of Fanon. Gibson explores him as a truly complex character in the context of his time and beyond. He argues that for Fanon, theory has a practical task to help change the world. Thus Fanon's "untidy dialectic," Gibson contends, is a philosophy of liberation that includes cultural and historical issues and visions of a future society. In a profoundly political sense, Gibson asks us to reevaluate Fanon's contribution as a critic of modernity and reassess in a new light notions of consciousness, humanism, and social change. This is a fascinating study that will interest undergraduates and above in postcolonial studies, literary theory, cultural studies, sociology, politics, and social and political theory, as well as general readers. Zusammenfassung * An outstanding introduction to the work of Franz Fanon! one of the most important and controversial thinkers of postwar period. * Fanon was an anti--colonial / postcolonial critic whose work spans across the political and academic disciplines of philosophy! psychiatry! social science! and literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments. Abbreviations for Fanon's Works. Introduction. 1. The Racial Gaze: Black Slave, White Master. 2. Psychoanalysis and the Black's Inferiority Complex. 3. Negritude and the Descent into a "Real Hell". 4. Becoming Algerian. 5. Violent Concerns. 6. Radical Mutations: Toward a Fighting Culture. 7. Crossing the Dividing Line: Spontaneity and Organization. 8. Nationalism and a New Humanism. Notes. Bibliography. Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Gibson, Nigel Gibson, Nigel C. Gibson, Gibson Nigel C.
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2003
• EAN: 9780745622606
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-2260-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers; Key Contemporary Thinkers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Cultural Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Sociology and anthropology