PHIL 335 Study Guide - Final Guide: Fetishism, Scientism, Jean-Paul Sartre
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What started with a desire to attain to source of the world, but then to find out that he was an object in midst of other objects . This is not an answer, or explanation to statement that is title, but rather, an insight into inner turmoil and tense soliloquy that fanon experiences . A trapping in the historicity of being a negro. Product of his ancestors, who are described as cannibalistic savages . Desperate in trying to find a framework to understand himself, to find pride being black. For a man whose only weapon is reason there is nothing more neurotic than contact with unreason . What fanon wants: does not want to use reason, or unreason to defend, or assert his blackness. Does not want to convince people of his worth, because of his ancestors, or whatever, does not want to be paired, diagnosis-like, to the fact of his race .