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Ohio University Press Frantz Fanon by Christopher J. Lee
Psychiatrist philosopher and revolutionary Frantz Fanon is one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. He presented powerful critiques of racism colonialism and nationalism in his classic books Black Skin White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961). This biography reintroduces Fanon for a new generation of readers revisiting these enduring themes while also arguing for those less appreciatednamely his antiManichean sensibility and his personal ethic of radical empathy both of which underpinned his utopian vision of a new humanism. Written with clarity and passion Christopher J. Lees account ultimately argues for the pragmatic idealism of Frantz Fanon and his continued importance today.show more