Frantz Fanon · Politics
The closing vision of <em>The Wretched of the Earth</em>: Fanon’s call to ‘leave this Europe’ - which preaches humanity while murdering it - and to ‘work out new concepts’ and ‘set afoot a new man,’ building a humanism that finally includes everyone. The revolutionary psychiatrist’s last testament, written as he was dying at thirty-six.
You learned that Fanon ended The Wretched of the Earth by rejecting the imitation of a Europe that betrayed its own humanist ideals, and calling on the colonized to ‘turn over a new leaf,’ ‘work out new concepts,’ and ‘set afoot a new man’ - a genuinely universal humanism. Explain w…
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