| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
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data file |
| Series |
Just ideas
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Just ideas.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
On what a great thinker said -- I am from Martinique -- Writing through the zone of nonbeing -- Living experience, embodying possibility -- Revolutionary therapy -- Counseling the damned -- Requiem for the messenger. |
| Summary |
Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an exemplar of ""living thought"" against forms of reason marked by colonialism and racism. Working from his own translations of the original French texts, Gordon critically engages everything in Fanon from dialectics, ethics, existentialism, and humanism to philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and political theory as well as ps |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961.
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Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961. |
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Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961 -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961 -- Philosophy. |
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Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961. |
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Intellectuals -- Algeria -- Biography.
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Intellectuals. |
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Algeria. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Revolutionaries -- Algeria -- Biography.
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Revolutionaries. |
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Psychiatrists -- Algeria -- Biography.
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Psychiatrists. |
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Algeria -- Biography.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General. |
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine. |
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MEDICAL -- Diseases. |
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine. |
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
| Indexed Term |
Africana phenomenology. |
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Africana philosophy. |
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Black political thought. |
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Existentialism. |
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Frantz Fanon. |
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Negritude. |
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creolization. |
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decolonial thought. |
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dialectics. |
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humanism. |
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postcolonial thought. |
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revolutionary thought. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo), 1962- What Fanon said. First edition. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2015 (DLC) 2014045381 |
| ISBN |
9780823266111 (electronic book) |
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0823266117 (electronic book) |
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9780823266128 (electronic book) |
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0823266125 (electronic book) |
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0823266087 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780823266081 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0823266095 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780823266098 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780823266081 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780823266098 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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