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Some Aspects of the Political Philosophy of Frantz Fanon Author(s): L. Adele Jinadu Source: African Studies Review, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Sep., 1973), pp. 255-289 Published by: African Studies Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/523409 . Accessed: 28/05/2013 15:31
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OF POLITICAL SOME ASPECTS THE OFFRANTZ FANON PHILOSOPHY
L. Adele Jinadu
Political philosophy is concerned with the ends and purposes of It involves a conception of "the good life" and is primargovernment.1 A concerned with human beings. ily, though perhaps not exclusively, conception of the good life presumably implies a view of how to attain that end. In this view, then, political philosophy is also concerned with the question of means, or how is the good life to be won and secured Of those for the members of a particular community or society or state? people of African ancestry who have done systematic thinking about the ends and purposes of government in Africa in the period since the end of World War II, there are few who measure up to the stature and originality of Frantz Fanon. (For biographical sketches on Fanon, see Caute 1970; Geismar 1969, 1970; CUsaire et al. 1962; de Beauvoir 1965, Ch. 5, espe-
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OF POLITICAL SOME ASPECTS THE OFFRANTZ FANON PHILOSOPHY
L. Adele Jinadu
Political philosophy is concerned with the ends and purposes of It involves a conception of "the good life" and is primargovernment.1 A concerned with human beings. ily, though perhaps not exclusively, conception of the good life presumably implies a view of how to attain that end. In this view, then, political philosophy is also concerned with the question of means, or how is the good life to be won and secured Of those for the members of a particular community or society or state? people of African ancestry who have done systematic thinking about the ends and purposes of government in Africa in the period since the end of World War II, there are few who measure up to the stature and originality of Frantz Fanon. (For biographical sketches on Fanon, see Caute 1970; Geismar 1969, 1970; CUsaire et al. 1962; de Beauvoir 1965, Ch. 5, espe-
cially
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