1st Edition
Fanon and the Crisis of European Man An Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences
By Lewis Gordon
Copyright 1995
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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As the first book to analyze the work of Fanon as an existential-phenomenological of human sciences and liberation philosopher, Gordon deploys Fanon's work to illuminate how the "bad faith" of European science and civilization have philosophically stymied the project of liberation. Fanon's body of work serves as a critique of European science and society, and shows the ways in which the project of... Read more
1 Fanon as Critique of European Man 2 Existential Phenomenology and History 3 Rascism, Coloialism and Anonymity, Social Theory and Embodied Agency 4 Tragic Revolutionary Voilence and Philosophical Anthropology 5 Fanon's Continued Relevance.
Biography
Lewis R. Gordon teaches Africana philosophy and contemporary religious thought at Brown University. He is author of Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (Humanities), Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences (Routledge), and Her Majesty's Other Children: Philosophical Sketches from a Neocolonial Age (Rowman & Littlefield). He is also co-editor of Fanon: A Critical Reader (Blackwell) and Black Texts and Textuality: Constructing and De-Constructing Blackness (Rowman & Littlefield).
