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Frantz Fanon's journey into Hegel's "night of the absolute"

Turner, Lou

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Title
Frantz Fanon's journey into Hegel's "night of the absolute"
Author(s)
Turner, Lou
Issue Date
1989
Keyword(s)
  • Hegel
  • Fanon
  • absolute
  • dialectic
  • race
  • consciousness
Date of Ingest
2026-02-22T16:20:58-06:00
Abstract
The Hegelian dimension of the thought of Frantz Fanon remains unexplored terrain nearly thirty years after his death. Apocryphal characterizations of Fanon as an apostle of violence, as well as the Left's ideological anxiety that his thought is a populist invitation to unrestrained spontaneity in opposition to its fetishism of the vanguard party, has very nearly subsumed his philosophic legacy. And yet, taken together, Fanon's Hegelian dimension, and the contradictory emergence of the Third World, whose revolutionary terminus ad quem continues to subsist in philosophic incompleteness, invite a long overdue reckoning with the dialectical foundation of the thought of Frantz Fanon.
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
article
Language
eng

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