Violence, Slavery and Freedom between Hegel and Fanon (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Wits University Press
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	August 2020
Editors:	Ulrike Kistner • Philippe Haute
Authors:	Ulrike Kistner • Philippe Haute • Robert Bernasconi • Ato Sekyi-Otu • Josias Tembo • Beata Stawarska • Reingard Nethersole
Dimensions:	230 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-1-77614-623-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism
LSN:	1-77614-623-9
Barcode:	9781776146239

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