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Violence, Slavery and Freedom between Hegel and Fanon

Author :  Ulrike Kistner, Philippe Van Haute, Robert Bernasconi

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Country
South Africa
Publisher
Wits University Press, Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN 9781776146239
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2020
Bib. Info xxiv, 152p. Includes Index
Product Weight 350 gms.
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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.

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