Intro -- CONTENTS -- Abbreviations for Works -- Prologue -- 1 REREADING FANON -- Postindependence Hermeneutics -- Narrative as Dialectic -- Dialectic as Politics -- 2 IMMEDIATE KNOWLEDGE -- History as Antidialectic -- Aristotle as Witness -- Antidialectic as Space -- Struggles over the "Dividing Line" -- The Dividing Line as the "Divided Line"? -- 3 BEWILDERING ENLIGHTENMENT -- Narrative, Catastasis, Dialectic -- "The Weary Road toward Rational Knowledge" -- Baneful Inconsequence? The Life History of the "National Bourgeoisie" -- 4 POLITICAL JUDGMENT -- The Ambiguity of Exclusion -- Reprieve of Prodigal Reason -- Allegories of Appropriation -- Woman the Measure -- Epilogue: The Record and the Vision -- Notes -- Index.
A Caribbean psychiatrist trained in France after World War II and an eloquent observer of the effects of French colonialism on its subjects, Fanon was a controversial figure. By recognizing the centrality of experience to Fanon's work, Sekyi-Otu enables readers to comprehend this misunderstood figure within the tradition of political philosophy.
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Fanon, Frantz,-1925-1961. Social sciences. Social sciences-Biography.