Episode 210: Frantz Fanon's Black Existentialism (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On Black Skin White Masks (1952).
How does growing up in a racist society mess people up? Fanon's "clinical study" includes phenomenology, poetry, and a lot of existentialism, which means that the "let's embrace negritude in the face of bigotry" solution isn't ultimately available to him: We're all radically free, with no race-specific essence, whether positive or negative. With guest Lawrence Ware.
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| 0:00.0 | The partial exam in life depends on your support. |
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| 0:08.5 | You are listening to The Parsley Exam in Life, a podcast by some guys |
| 0:19.2 | where at one point, set on doing philosophy for living with them thought better of it. |
| 0:22.4 | Our question for episode 210 is something like, how does growing up in a racist society |
| 0:28.4 | mess people up? |
| 0:30.4 | Henry Red, Franz Fanon's Black Skin White Masks from 1952. |
| 0:36.4 | For more information please visit www.parsleyxamonlife.com. |
| 0:39.4 | This is Mark Linson Meyer who despite growing up in the 80s never wore black face for Halloween in Madison Wisconsin. |
| 0:45.4 | Oh my gosh. |
| 0:48.4 | This is Seth Paskin in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:51.4 | This is Wes Long and Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 0:54.4 | This is Dylan Casey in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:57.4 | And this is Lawrence Ware in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. |
| 1:01.4 | Welcome back, Law. |
| 1:03.4 | Yeah, how many years has it been? |
| 1:05.4 | Man, it's been a few years. |
| 1:07.4 | It's good to be back with you guys. |
| 1:09.4 | It seems like a lot has happened with me since we began, but yeah, man, it's good to be back with you guys. |
| 1:13.4 | Yes, you're a big time. |
| 1:15.4 | Oh, I am not big time. |
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