Frantz Fanon on Violence & Conflict in Hegel’s Philosophy

Turner, Lou

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Title

Frantz Fanon on Violence & Conflict in Hegel’s Philosophy

Author(s)

Turner, Lou

Issue Date

2025-01-01

Keyword(s)

• Frantz Fanon
• Hegel
• violence
• conflict
• phenomenology
• absolute freedom
• anticolonial
• colonialism
• dialectic
• counter violence
• force
• Karl Marx

Date of Ingest

2026-04-02T12:30:18-05:00

Abstract

“Frantz Fanon on Violence & Conflict in Hegel’s Philosophy” was submitted in 2025 to the Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence on the occasion of Frantz Fanon’s centenary but remains unpublished. The article is part of series on Fanon’s engagement with four different areas of Hegel’s phenomenology. There are four categorical engagements between Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and the evolving anticolonial theory of Frantz Fanon. Hegel’s famous Lordship and Bondage chapter in the Self-Consciousness section of the Phenomenology is famously engaged by Fanon in Black Skin, White Mask (1952) as a violent encounter for recognition and identity. Fanon returned to the Reason section of the Phenomenology, “Society as a Spiritual Community of Animals,” in mapping “Concerning Violence” in Wretched of the Earth (1961). Fanon takes a new point of departure from Hegel’s chapter “Absolute Freedom and Terror” in the Spirit section of the Phenomenology in theorizing the contradictions in anticolonial revolutions and their aftermath. There are few theorists of the 20th century Third World revolutions for whom the Hegelian dialectic was more indispensable in making sense of our age of revolution and counter-revolution than Frantz Fanon.

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text

Genre of Resource

conference paper

Language

eng

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