Sartre’s relativizing destroyed black Americans’ zeal collectively

Evidence

Jean-Paul Sartre, in this work, has destroyed black zeal. In opposition to historical becoming, there had always been the unforeseeable. I needed to lose myself completely in negritude. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 512

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why does Fanon need to lose himself ‘completely’ in negritude? The claim that intellectual framing kills affective commitment is worth tracing through his later work.
• XREF: connects to: Sartre relativized negritude at a moment when Black consciousness needed absoluteness; Black radical violence turned inward toward collective being rather than outward against the system; Black party members’ dogmatism shielded them from psychological destruction (+1 more)

Related

• Sartre relativized negritude at a moment when Black consciousness needed absoluteness (similarity 0.94)
• Black consciousness precedes the ego and resists external framing as a lack (similarity 0.82)
• Black party members’ dogmatism shielded them from psychological destruction (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Black radical violence turned inward toward collective being rather than outward against the system #expands (0.65)
• Black party members’ dogmatism shielded them from psychological destruction #qualifies (0.40)