Ulrike Kistner, Philippe Van Haute, Robert Bernasconi, Ato Sekyi-Otu, Josias Tembo, Beata Stawarska, Reingard Nethersole

Violence, Slavery and Freedom Between Hegel and Fanon

Herausgeber: Kistner, Ulrike; Haute, Philippe Van

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Produktbeschreibung

A deep dive into the influences of Hegelian thought on the work of revolutionary and postcolonial theorist Frantz Fanon 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 The 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781776146239
• ISBN-10: 1776146239
• Artikelnr.: 60209488

Autorenporträt

Ulrike Kistner is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria.