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

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

Philippe Van Haute, Ulrike Kistner (Herausgeber)

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2020
176 Seiten
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77614-624-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• ISBN-10: 1-77614-624-7 / 1776146247
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77614-624-6 / 9781776146246