61 | Frantz Fanon, Racism, and the Alienation of Reason
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Black Man Confronted With His Race End Quote
Fanon thinks that we are intrinsically reason giving creatures and that reason is is integral to our freedom and humanity. Fanon clearly thinks the same colonial society alienated subjects from nourishing reason and dams them to unreasonable Rationalities of racism and exploitation. The cure again the scare quotes that Fanon offers is the practical struggle to establish the social conditions for inter subjective reason. I want to close with my most polemical interpretation of black skin You will note that I refer to the narrator of chapter five Most interpreters assume that chapter five because it is written in the first person is about Fanon's experience with racism. There's much more I want to say but I've gone on much too long So
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