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978-1-78348-300-6 • Hardback • December 2014 • $176.00 • (£137.00)
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Stefan Bird-Pollan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He has published articles in numerous journals, including Radical Philosophy, Critical Horizons, Philosophy and Social Criticism and Public Reason.
Dedication / Acknowledgements / Abbreviations / Introduction / 1. Kant, Hegel, Freud and the Structure of the Subject / 2. Trauma and Dialectics / 3.Fanon’s Psychopathology of Race and Colonialism / 4. The Rebirth of the Revolutionary Subject / 5. Hegel, Freud and Fanon’s Theories of History / Conclusion: The Ideal of Recognition, Political and Libidinal / Bibliography / Index
This is an exciting, and perhaps for some controversial, book. With a nuanced sensibility to the originality of Fanon’s thought, Bird-Pollan challenges us to rethink the importance of Freud’s metapsychology (especially the Oedipus complex) and Hegel’s dialectic of recognition on Fanon’s thinking about emancipation.
— Nigel C. Gibson, Associate Professor, Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College
Bird-Pollan offers an agile analysis of the relationship between negativity and self-integration in Hegel, Freud, and Fanon, challenging the by now standard idea that fragmentation is intrinsic to human subjectivity, and making a strong case for a socio-political understanding of traumatization.
— Mari Ruti, Professor of Critical Theory, University of Toronto