What Fanon said: A philosophical introduction to his life and thought
本书由美国非洲学者刘易斯·R·戈登撰写，旨在为当代读者重新介绍法农的生平与思想，探讨其反种族主义、泛非主义和人文主义哲学在当今世界的相关性。
Frantz Omar Fanon died of leukaemia on 6 December 1961, at the early age of 36. A Francophone Afro-Caribbean from Martinique, he was both a professional psychiatrist and a revolutionary. A member of the Algerian National Liberation Front during the war against French colonialism (1954–62), he developed an eclectic philosophy of anti-racism, pan-Africanism, and humanism. He wrote four books, in French, available in English as Black Skin, White Masks (1952/2017), The Wretched of the Earth (1961/2001), A Dying Colonialism, originally L’An Cinque, de la Revolution Algérienne (1964/1988), and Toward the African Revolution (1964/1988), essays and other writing published posthumously. These were polemical books, written clearly and pungently and significant through their original insights into human relations in a racially oppressive world. The Africana scholar from the United States, Lewis R. Gordon re-considers this work in an attempt at a philosophical introduction to Fanon’s life and thought. He is a well-known academic, familiar with the French cultural and linguistic context in which Fanon lived and worked. This is important when explaining Fanon to those restricted to reading him in English and who have a limited knowledge of the history of French colonialism and of French intellectual life. Fanon’s original celebrity was almost sixty years ago; and while he was then very widely known and read, this is not necessarily the case today, although many of the issues he confronted continue to frustrate humanity. This book is a timely opportunity to consider the extent to which Fanon’s life and thought remains relevant to our contemporary world or whether he is now of historical interest only.