Description
Psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary, Frantz Fanon is one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. He presented powerful critiques of racism, colonialism, and nationalism in his classic books, Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961). This biography reintroduces Fanon for a new generation of readers, revisiting these enduring themes while also arguing for those less appreciated-namely, his anti-Manichean sensibility and his personal ethic of radical empathy, both of which underpinned his utopian vision of a new humanism. Written with clarity and passion, Christopher J. Lee's account ultimately argues for the pragmatic idealism of Frantz Fanon and his continued importance today.
Author: Christopher J. Lee
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 11/13/2015
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.17h x 2.85w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9780821421741
ISBN10: 0821421743
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists
- Political Science | Political Process | General
- Political Science | Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
About the Author
Christopher J. Lee is the author of Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism, and Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa and the editor of Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives. He is an associate professor of history at Lafayette College.