Black Soul, White Artifact: Fanon's Clinical Psychology and Social Theory - Brossura

McCulloch, Jock

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521520258 ISBN 13: 9780521520256

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Riassunto

The death of Frantz Fanon at the age of thirty-six robbed the African revolution of its leading intellectual and moral force. His death also cut short one of the most extraordinary intellectual careers in contemporary political thought. Fanon was a political psychologist whose approach to revolutionary theory was grounded in his psychiatric practice. During his years in Algeria he published clinical studies on the behaviour of violent patients, the role of culture in the development of illness and the function of the psychiatric hospital as a social milieu. These papers illuminate Fanon's political theory, expose weaknesses in his concept of political consciousness and liberation, and contain a 'secret history' explaining the tide of revolutionary movements in the Third World.

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Frantz Fanon (1925–61) was a political psychologist whose approach to revolutionary theory was grounded in his psychiatric practice. These papers illuminate his political theory, expose weaknesses in his concept of political consciousness and liberation, and contain a 'secret history' explaining the tide of revolutionary movements in the Third World.

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List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The three paradigms: negritude, ethnopsychiatry and African socialism; 2. Negritude; 3. Ethnopsychiatry and the psychopathology of colonialism: Fanon's account of colonised man in 'Black Skin White Masks'; 4. From psychiatric practice to political theory; 5. Culture and personality; 6. Class conflict and the liberation of Africa; 7. The failed revolution; 8. The neo-colonial state; 9. Towards a critique of Fanon's class analysis; 10. Conclusion; Appendixes; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521520258
• ISBN 13: 9780521520256
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 262