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published on October 24, 2024
Jacob Dahl Rendtorff
https://doi.org/10.5840/ecoethica2024101762
Critique of Tragic Post-colonial Political Theory
From Jean-Paul Sartre to Frantz Fanon
This article discusses the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre on Frantz Fanon¡¯s political thinking. Sartre presents a dialectical social theory, based on the progressive-regressive method, considering the interplay between individual and collective, history and contemporary action, past and future. This philosophy has had a critical impact on Fanon¡¯s political theory of neocolonialism, race, and intersectionality. Fanon studied colonialism based on Sartre¡¯s philosophy and analyzed the problems of racism and oppression. He developed the concept of the colonial gaze as internalization of the gaze of the colonial order as self-oppressive othering of the self. The point of departure for the article is a short presentation of Fanon¡¯s biography. From this the article discusses the famous meeting between Fanon and Sartre in Rome in 1961. Finally, the article places this encounter within the development of a critical philosophy of race, as proposed in the work of Robert Bernasconi.