Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Caribbean and African psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary whose works, including Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth are hugely influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and post-Marxism. His legacy remains with us today, having inspired movements in Palestine, Sri Lanka, the US and South Africa.
This is a critical biography of his extraordinary life. Peter Hudis draws on the expanse of his life and work – from his upbringing in Martinique and early intellectual influences to his mature efforts to fuse psychoanalysis and philosophy and contributions to the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria – to counter the monolithic assumption that Fanon’s contribution to modern thought is defined by the advocacy of violence.
He was a political activist who brought his interests in psychology and philosophy directly to bear on such issues as mutual recognition, democratic participation and political sovereignty. Hudis shows that, as a result, Fanon emerges as neither armchair intellectual nor intransigent militant.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Fanon in Our Time
1. The Path to Political and Philosophical Commitment
2. Self and Other: The Dialectic of Black Skin, White Masks
3. The Engaged Psychiatrist: Blida and the Psychodynamics of Racism
4. The Engaged Philosopher: The FLN and the Algerian Revolution
5. The Strategist of Revolution: Africa at the Crossroads
6. Toward a New Humanity: The Wretched of the Earth
Notes
Index
About the author
Peter Hudis is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Oakton Community College and author of Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism (Brill, 2012) and Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto, 2015). He edited The Rosa Luxemburg Reader (Monthly Review Press, 2004) and The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg (Verso, 2013).
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