Violence, Slavery and Freedom between Hegel and Fanon

130 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h37min.
Examines through Fanon’s reading of Hegel how the slave-master dialectic has been thwarted by colonial racism and instead of work, the role of violence has become formative.Hegel 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. Preface - 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 Contributors Index