Show where do Foucault and Fanon overlap

Show where do Foucault and Fanon overlap

Analyze the two texts using this questions below (3 pages more or less).

-Frantz Fanon- Wretched of the Earth

-Michel Foucault Security. Territory, Population

1. Show where do Foucault and Fanon overlap or diverge in their analyses of how bio-power and state regimes develop and function?

2. In “their shared critique of the sovereign subject of humanism” Fanon and Foucault, see the critique of the “traditional humanist subject” as a way of “opposing what they both see as the dangerous nostalgia for a lost moment of origin.” Can a meaningful ethical position be established without the humanist subject?

3. Does Foucault share in Fanon’s emancipatory project?

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Foucault and Fanon analysis

Introduction

Frantz Fanon wrote the book “the wretched of the earth” was published in 1961. It provides psychologic and psychiatric analysis on colonization and its dehumanizing effects upon the affected people and the affected nation. Fanon discusses the cultural, political and social implications resulting from establishing social movement (Fanon, 2007). Michel Foucault’s courses at a College in France have been systematically edited by Fontana by Gallimard and Seuil.

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