homas Paine and Frantz Fanon : their vision of man and their theort of revolution
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Date
2017
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Universite Mouloud Mammeri
Abstract
The aim of this studyis to compare and contrast the works of two influential thinkers,
Thomas Paine and Frantz Fanon from a dialogic and eclectic perspective. Though
separated by time and space, the comparison of their works shows that their thoughts,
feelings, and action within the structures of power of their social worlds and their times
converge in many aspects. The reached findings can be summarized in what follows:
first, the examination of the political, philosophical, social, and cultural significance of
their worksdemonstrates how each of them performed a good deal about ethics and the
moral life by concerning themselves with the social consequences of morality and the
moral quality of social life. Second, the analysis of Paine’s and Fanon’s dedication to
revolutionary action illustrates the way they serve the cause of man. As an ardent
supporter of the American and French Revolutions, Paine re-enacts the principles of the
Enlightenment to international politics; he contributed to the establishment of
constitutional republics, which safeguard individual rights. Like Paine, Fanon dedicated
his short life to the Algerian Revolution and insists on individual rights universally by
pointing out the miseries and injustices within twentieth Bourgeois liberalism and
colonialism. Therefore, he performs some of the humanist values articulated by Paine in
the 18thcentury using a critical discourse, which abrogates the way Europe adulterated
the essential elements of the Enlightenment. The first part of the thesis deals with the
theories and key concepts which are applied to study the texts. The context of British and
French colonization and revolution in America and Algeria is set as background with an
interest in an analysis of Britain’s and France’s imperial powers over their colonies and
their competition over territorial expansion. The findings of the second partreveal Paine’s
and Fanon’s rhetoric strategies which “deconstruct” political and religious “habitus” about
the struggle of the American and Algerian peoples while the last part illustrates the way
Paine and Fanon perform a social drama staging the suffering of victims of colonial
oppression by studying the two authors’ communicative action and their participation to
the public sphere.
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349f. 30cm. (+ CD -Rom)
Keywords
Colonisation : Algérie, Colonisation : Amérique, Théorie de la révolution, Thomas paine, Frantz Fonon
Citation
Civilization