Hegel, Freud and Fanon: The Dialectic of Emancipation

ISBN-13: 9781783483013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 262 str.

Stefan Bird-Pollan

Opis

Revolutionary theories from Marx onward have often struggled to unite the psychological commitments of individuals understood as ideological with the larger ethical or political goals of a social movement. As a psychiatrist, social theorist, and revolutionary, Frantz Fanon attempted to connect the ideological and the political. Fanon s work gives both a psychological explanation of the origins of ideology and seeks to restore the individual to autonomy and political agency. This book explores the deeper philosophical foundations of Fanon s project in order to understand the depths of Fanon s contribution to the theory of the subject and to social theory. It also demonstrates how Fanon s model makes it possible to understand the political dimensions of Freudian psychoanalysis and the psychological dimensions of Hegel s social theory. This is the first book to bring these two central dimensions of Fanon s thought into dialogue. It uses Fanon s position to provide a deeper interpretation of key texts in Freud and Hegel and by uniting these three thinkers contributes to the creolization of all three thinkers."