Towards a decolonial political theory: Thinking from the zone of nonbeing

Charles des Portes
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This article offers to outline a direction for a decolonial political theory based on Aimé Césaire’s and Frantz Fanon’s thoughts. In doing so, I will first discuss some work of comparative political theory that could be associated with an attempt to decolonize political theory. Rather than a systematic critique of these works, this article aims to outline some of their limits from a decolonial perspective, such as their embedment in a continental ontology/logic, and their over-emphasis on methodology that can lead to an instrumental account of politics. In contrast, I will argue for a decolonial existential political theory that grounds its investigation in what Frantz Fanon called ‘the zone of nonbeing’ and that takes politics as first philosophy. To make my point, I will discuss Aimé Césaire’s Letter to Maurice Thorez and Frantz Fanon’s Political Theory of the Damnés.
迈向非殖民主义政治理论:从非存在区开始思考
本文以艾梅-塞泽尔和弗朗茨-法农的思想为基础,概述了非殖民化政治理论的方向。为此,我将首先讨论一些比较政治理论著作,这些著作可能与非殖民化政治理论的尝试有关。本文的目的不是对这些著作进行系统的批判,而是从非殖民化的角度概述它们的一些局限性,如它们嵌入了大陆本体论/逻辑,以及它们过于强调方法论,这可能导致对政治的工具性解释。与此相反,我将论证一种非殖民主义的存在主义政治理论,这种理论以弗朗茨-法农(Frantz Fanon)所说的 "非存在区域 "为研究基础,并将政治作为第一哲学。为了阐明我的观点,我将讨论艾梅-塞泽尔的《致莫里斯-梭伦的信》和弗朗茨-法农的《该死人的政治理论》。
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