Olivier frantz fanon biography pdf

1 Fanon, Frantz Lewis Gordon Frantz Fanon’s (1925–61) contribution to ethics is, like that of Simone de Beauvoir, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Jean-Paul Sartre, primarily metaethical in the form of a critique of Western moral philosophy and its relation to politics (see BEAUVOIR, SIMONE DE; NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH; SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL).

Fanon offers, however, important critical considerations in the framework of what is today called global Southern thought and its many correlates, such as Africana (that is, African diasporic) philosophy, through his explorations of radical existential humanism.

This approach has many creative twists and turns that emerge out of his efforts in what is now called decolonial thought and its complement, decolonial ethics.

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In Fanon, one finds the effort to decolonize not only knowledge and the organization of society, but also normative life. Frantz Omar Fanon was born on the island of Martinique in 1925. A precocious and independent young man, he w