Posts Tagged ‘Frantz Fanon’
Arendt on Fanon
01Dec09
I’ve tried to find more on “spontaneity” in Arendt and Fanon. I’ve ultimately found more of her criticisms on Fanon’s necessary violence. This quote is from an essay I’m using. “Her reading of Fanon is frequently qualified by a tendency to accuse other members ofthe existentialist tradition with which she identifies Fanon, as being more [...]
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Tags: colonialism, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, spontaneity, violence
I’m having trouble with Arendt’s idea of freedom and action. I think she may be obsessed with Kant, leading her to conclude that freedom is no more ascertainable to the inner sense and within the field of inner experience than it is to the sense with which we know and understand the world (151, Between [...]
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Tags: action, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, spontaneity
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