Alienation and Freedom

Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon's work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals & activists from the 60s to the present day.

Alienation & Freedom collects together previously unpublished works comprising around half of his entire output – which were previously inaccessible or thought to be lost. This book introduces audiences to a new Fanon, a more personal Fanon & one whose literary & psychiatric works, in particular, take centre stage. These writings provide new depth & complexity to our understanding of Fanon's entire oeuvre revealing more of his powerful thinking about identity, race & activism which remain remarkably prescient. Shedding new light on the work of a major 20th-century philosopher, this disruptive & moving work will shape how we look at the world.

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Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique in 1925. He served in the French Army during World War II, & later studied medicine & psychiatry in France, where he published his first book, Black Skin, White Masks in 1952. He joined the Algerian Nationalist Movement in the mid-1950s, & published The Wretched of the Earth shortly before dying of leukemia in December 1961.