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Book SynopsisHegel is most often mentioned – and not without good reason – as one of the paradigmatic exponents of Eurocentrism and racism in Western philosophy. But his thought also played a crucial and formative role in the work of one of the iconic thinkers of the ‘decolonial turn’, Frantz Fanon. This would be inexplicable if it were not for the much-quoted ‘lord-bondsman’ dialectic – frequently referred to as the ‘master-slave dialectic’ – described in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Fanon takes up this dialectic negatively in contexts of violence-riven (post-)slavery and colonialism; yet in works such as Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth he upholds a Hegelian-inspired vision of freedom.
The essays in this collection offer close readings of Hegel’s text, and of responses to it in the work of twentieth-century philosophers, that highlight the entangled history of the translations, transpositions and transformations of Hegel in the work of Fanon, and more generally in colonial, postcolonial and decolonial contexts.
Table of ContentsPreface - Hegel/Fanon: Transpositions in Translations – Ulrike Kistner and Philippe Van Haute
Introduction - Fanon’s French Hegel – Robert Bernasconi
Chapter 1 Dialectics in Dispute, with Aristotle as Witness – Ato Sekyi-Otu
Chapter 2 Through Alexandre Kojève’s Lens: Violence and the Dialectic of Lordship and Bondage in Fanon’s
Black Skin, White Masks – Philippe Van Haute
Chapter 3 Reading Hegel’s Gestalten: Beyond Coloniality – Ulrike Kistner
Chapter 4 Hegel’s Lord-Bondsman Dialectic and the African: A Critical Appraisal of Achille Mbembe’s Colonial Subjects – Josias Tembo
Chapter 5 Struggle and Violence: Entering the Dialectic with Frantz Fanon and Simone de Beauvoir – Beata Stawarska
Chapter 6 Shards of Hegel: Jean-Paul Sartre’s and Homi K. Bhabha’s Readings of
The Wretched of the Earth – Reingard Nethersole
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