Frantz Fanon and C.L.R. James on Intellectualism and Enlightened Rationality
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| contents | Frantz Fanon and C.L.R. James on Intellectualism and Enlightened Rationality Nelson Maldonado-Torres Estudios Culturales modernity sociogenesis postcolonial intellectual enlightenment This essay explores critical accounts of modern rationality andefforts to articulate a conception of reason that is tied to the ideaof decolonization as project. It focuses on the work of two ofthe most widely known and influential Caribbean theorists: theMartiniquean psychiatrist and revolutionary Frantz Fanon andthe Trinidadean Marxist C.L.R. James. The essay first focuseson Fanons diagnosis of reason in the colonial context and theovercoming of its ambiguities and limits through what he callssociogeny. Sociogeny is instrumental for the combination oftheory with ethics and politics, which provides the ground for aconception of the intellectual as a radical humanist and a revolutionary.Jamess view of rational activity in terms of makingthe abstract universal concrete and his approach to culturecomplements in important ways Fanons typology of reason andhuman agency in important ways, but it introduces problemsthat a Fanonian understanding of the limits of modernity helpsto address 2005 artículo científico 0008-6533 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=39233207 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=392 Caribbean Studies application/pdf Universidad de Puerto Rico Caribbean Studies (Puerto Rico) Num.2 Vol.33 |
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| spellingShingle | Frantz Fanon and C.L.R. James on Intellectualism and Enlightened Rationality Nelson Maldonado-Torres Estudios Culturales modernity sociogenesis postcolonial intellectual enlightenment Frantz Fanon and C.L.R. James on Intellectualism and Enlightened Rationality Nelson Maldonado-Torres Estudios Culturales modernity sociogenesis postcolonial intellectual enlightenment This essay explores critical accounts of modern rationality andefforts to articulate a conception of reason that is tied to the ideaof decolonization as project. It focuses on the work of two ofthe most widely known and influential Caribbean theorists: theMartiniquean psychiatrist and revolutionary Frantz Fanon andthe Trinidadean Marxist C.L.R. James. The essay first focuseson Fanons diagnosis of reason in the colonial context and theovercoming of its ambiguities and limits through what he callssociogeny. Sociogeny is instrumental for the combination oftheory with ethics and politics, which provides the ground for aconception of the intellectual as a radical humanist and a revolutionary.Jamess view of rational activity in terms of makingthe abstract universal concrete and his approach to culturecomplements in important ways Fanons typology of reason andhuman agency in important ways, but it introduces problemsthat a Fanonian understanding of the limits of modernity helpsto address 2005 artículo científico 0008-6533 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=39233207 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=392 Caribbean Studies application/pdf Universidad de Puerto Rico Caribbean Studies (Puerto Rico) Num.2 Vol.33 |
| title | Frantz Fanon and C.L.R. James on Intellectualism and Enlightened Rationality |
| topic | Estudios Culturales modernity sociogenesis postcolonial intellectual enlightenment |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=39233207 |