Monday 5 December 2011

Frantz Fanon and C.L.R James on Intellectualism and Enlightened Rationality

by Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Caribbean Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2. 2005

This essay explores critical accounts of modern rationality and efforts to articulate a conception of reason that is tied to the idea of decolonization as project. It focuses on the work of two of the most widely known and influential Caribbean theorists: the Martiniquean psychiatrist and revolutionary Frantz Fanon and the Trinidadian Marxist C.L.R. James.

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