Violence, Slavery and Freedom between Hegel and Fanon Paperback / softback
by Ulrike Kistner, Philippe Van Haute, Robert Bernasconi, Ato Sekyi-Otu, Josias Tembo, Beata Stawarska, Reingard Nethersole
Edited by Ulrike Kistner, Philippe Van Haute
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Hegel is most often mentioned – and not without good reason – as one of the paradigmatic exponents of Eurocentrism and racism in Western philosophy.
But his thought also played a crucial and formative role in the work of one of the iconic thinkers of the ‘decolonial turn’, Frantz Fanon.
This would be inexplicable if it were not for the much-quoted ‘lord-bondsman’ dialectic – frequently referred to as the ‘master-slave dialectic’ – described in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.
Fanon takes up this dialectic negatively in contexts of violence-riven (post-)slavery and colonialism; yet in works such as Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth he upholds a Hegelian-inspired vision of freedom. The essays in this collection offer close readings of Hegel’s text, and of responses to it in the work of twentieth-century philosophers, that highlight the entangled history of the translations, transpositions and transformations of Hegel in the work of Fanon, and more generally in colonial, postcolonial and decolonial contexts.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Wits University Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2020
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- ISBN:9781776146239
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Wits University Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781776146239