1st Edition
Camus and Fanon on the Algerian Question An Ethics of Rebellion
1. Introduction
Part I: Fanon
2. The Pure Peasant-Warrior-Philosopher
3. Dreams, Lies and the New Man
4. "The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness"
5. The Therapeutic Function of Violence?
6. The New Man?
7. Liberation Psychiatry
Part II: Camus
8. Almost Brushing Shoulders
9. Bad Faith
10. Sisyphus
11. An Unlikely Solution
12. "The Temple of Caesar"
13. "I rebel—therefore we exist": Truth, Freedom, and Communication
14. Conclusion.
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Pedro Tabensky is the Director of the Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Rhodes University in South Africa. He has drawn on the work of Fanon and Camus intellectuals in recent publications. Tabensky is currently working on a book exploring the relationship between education, ethics, and freedom.
"Even as the anti-colonialism that so much drove Fanon has become a powerful force in today’s world, so too do we seem, in recent times, to have been plunged back into what is almost a replay of the events of the 1930s and 1940s that so shaped Camus’ thinking. Algeria is the landscape in which the contrast between Camus and Fanon was largely played out historically and biographically; that contrast is now being played out, in broader terms, across the world. Tabensky’s ground-breaking, rigorous, and thoughtful book is thus a timely intervention in a past debate that nevertheless remains very much alive – a book for the present and for the future."
Jeff Malpas, Emeritus Distinguished Professor, University of Tasmania, Australia
"This book puts two significant writers, Camus and Fanon, in conversation for the first time. Tabensky moves us beyond superficial or anachronistic depictions to consider the options for social change in the face of entrenched colonial structures. These two would not, and did not, agree on much apart from the necessity of foreign and racial domination to disappear, but considering the two together allows us to see the options for resistance."
Bruce B. Janz, University of Central Florida, USA
