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...

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...