Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences

by Lewis R. Gordon

Book Overview

As the first book to analyze the work of Fanon as an existential-phenomenological of human sciences and liberation philosopher, Gordon deploys Fanon's work to illuminate how the "bad faith" of European science and civilization have philosophically stymied the project of liberation. Fanon's body of work serves as a critique of European science and society, and shows the ways in which the project of "truth" is compromised by Eurocentric artificially...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415914159
• ISBN13: 9780415914154
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"