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

Lewis R. Gordon

Published by Fordham University Press 2015

What Fanon Said

A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought

Lewis R. Gordon
Afterword by: Drucilla Cornell
Preface by: Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun

In the series Just Ideas

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823266111

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Challenging the notion of theory as white and experience as black, Lewis Gordon here offers a philosophical portrait of the thought and life of the Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an example of “living thought” against the legacies of colonialism and racism, and thereby shows the continued relevance and importance of his ideas.

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Gordon Lewis R. :

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.Dayan-Herzbrun Sonia :

Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun is University Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences at the University of Paris-Diderot.Cornell Drucilla :

Drucilla Cornell is Professor of Political Science, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. She also teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London, and the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

Reviews

In the hands of Lewis Gordon, What Fanon Said, becomes what Frantz Fanon says to us today. The book brings alive the revolutionary thought and practice of Fanon into the continuing struggles for structural economic, political, social, and psychic transformations of our world. The struggle against anti-black racism is an integral part of it, and Gordon's Fanon is the many-sided thinker who saw it all and give it words of fire in his works, particularly Black Skin, White Masks and The Damned of the Earth.

—Abdul R. JanMohamed, University of California, Berkeley:

“Gordon allows us to read Fanon in new and different ways, contextualizing his
thought in a wide arc of knowledge—from St. Augustine and traditional Akan
philosophy to contemporaries such as De Beauvoir, Sartre, and Senghor, to more
recent continental philosophers. Along the way, Gordon incorporates relevant
debates from contemporary theoretical movements such as critical race theory.
What Fanon Said is a provocative and illuminating study.”

—Lucy Kim-Chi Mercier:
Gordon is interested in understanding and correcting the systematic delegitimization of black intellectuals, both in philosophy and within the broader scope of theory…This is how Gordon pertinently introduces considerations of race and racism within the epistemological field, engaging his readers to be more perceptive with regard to what could be called a ‘colour line in theory’.

Gordon has contextualised Fanon's words in an impressive analysis of his texts in relation to other thinkers and critics.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Foreword Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 216
Keywords: Frantz Fanon; Africana philosophy; Existentialism; Black political thought; Africana phenomenology; creolization; dialectics; decolonial thought; humanism; Negritude; postcolonial thought; revolutionary thought

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Published: April 1, 2015
ISBN: 9780823266111