Violence, Slavery and Freedom between Hegel and Fanon

di Ulrike Kistner (Autore)

Philippe Haute (Autore)

Robert Bernasconi (Autore)

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Wits University Press, 2020

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.

• Autore: Ulrike Kistner, Philippe Haute, Robert Bernasconi
• Curatore: Ulrike Kistner, Philippe Haute
• Editore: Wits University Press
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 176 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• EAN: 9781776146239

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