Book contents
- Thinking of the Medieval
- Thinking of the Medieval
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- About the Cover
- Introduction
- Part I Politics
- Chapter 1 Outside History
- Chapter 2 “The Noblest Blood God Ever Made”
- Chapter 3 Ernst Kantorowicz, Carl Schmitt, and the University of California Regents
- Chapter 4 Hannah Arendt’s Middle Ages for the Left
- Part II Arts
- Part III Epochs
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 1 - Outside History
Fanon’s Negative Manicheism
from Part I - Politics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2022
Book contents
- Thinking of the Medieval
- Thinking of the Medieval
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- About the Cover
- Introduction
- Part I Politics
- Chapter 1 Outside History
- Chapter 2 “The Noblest Blood God Ever Made”
- Chapter 3 Ernst Kantorowicz, Carl Schmitt, and the University of California Regents
- Chapter 4 Hannah Arendt’s Middle Ages for the Left
- Part II Arts
- Part III Epochs
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores what historical significance Manicheism has for the work of Frantz Fanon. It explores the role that St. Augustine’s anti-Manicheism might play in Fanon’s thinking, and the ways in which members of the Front de Libération Nationale in the Algerian war were deeply conscious of the historical terrain of Manicheism. This chapter argues that the quasi-Hegelian absolute negative is Fanon’s most powerful rebuke to both conventional Hegelian dialectic itself, and to the colonial manicheism that Fanon urges the colonized to overcome.
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- Thinking of the MedievalMidcentury Intellectuals and the Middle Ages, pp. 35 - 67Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022