Frantz Fanon : philosopher of the barricades / Peter Hudis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hudis, Peter, author.

Series:

Revolutionary lives.

Revolutionary lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961.

Fanon, Frantz.

Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961--Political and social views.

Algeria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2015.

Summary:

"Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer whose hugely influential books--including Black skin, white masks--have informed a wide range of studies, and inspired revolutionary movements from Palestine to Sri Lanka and South Africa. Frantz Fanon: philosopher of the barricades is a critical biography of his extraordinary life and work. Peter Hudis draws on his entire story--from his upbringing in Martinique to his mature efforts to fuse psychoanalysis with philosophy--to show that Fanon's writing speaks directly to today's struggles against racism and alienation." -- Back cover.

Contents:

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 8, 2015).

ISBN:

1-78371-685-1

1-78371-684-3

OCLC:

919479212