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Portrait of Frantz Fanon

20th century · 1925–1961

Who influenced Frantz Fanon?

Influences

Psychiatry and revolution: colonialism as a disease of the colonized and the colonizer.

Frantz Fanon was influenced by W. E. B. Du Bois and Jean-Paul Sartre. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Frantz Fanon?

Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and political philosopher who studied the psychological damage of colonisation and the human and social consequences of decolonisation. Working as a doctor during the Algerian War of independence, he joined the National Liberation Front.

Historians have called him the most influential anticolonial thinker of his time, and his work has inspired liberation movements from Sri Lanka to South Africa and the United States. In psychiatry he argued that many patients do better within their families and communities than in institutions, and he helped found institutional psychotherapy.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Frantz Fanon?

2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.

The line of teachers behind Frantz Fanon

The longest documented line of influence ending at Frantz Fanon runs 27 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Anaximenes of Miletus
  3. Anaxagoras
  4. Socrates
  5. Antisthenes
  6. Diogenes of Sinope
  7. Crates of Thebes
  8. Zeno of Citium
  9. Seneca
  10. Tertullian
  11. Augustine of Hippo
  12. Anselm of Canterbury
  13. Peter Lombard
  14. Thomas Aquinas
  15. René Descartes
  16. Thomas Hobbes
  17. Baruch Spinoza
  18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  19. Christian Wolff
  20. Immanuel Kant
  21. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  22. F. W. J. Schelling
  23. Georg W. F. Hegel
  24. Max Stirner
  25. Friedrich Nietzsche
  26. Martin Heidegger
  27. Jean-Paul Sartre
  28. Frantz Fanon

Two steps away from Frantz Fanon

Indirect influences

Contemporaries of Frantz Fanon

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Frantz Fanon, with no direct line between them.

Frantz Fanon by the numbers

Direct influences
2
Direct followers
0
Thinkers upstream
116
Thinkers downstream
0
Wikipedia languages
61 — #37 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
Card rarity
Epic

Questions about Frantz Fanon

Who influenced Frantz Fanon?
W. E. B. Du Bois and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Who did Frantz Fanon influence?
No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Frantz Fanon.
When did Frantz Fanon live?
1925–1961. The map files Frantz Fanon under the 20th century.
How rare is the Frantz Fanon card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Frantz Fanon in 61 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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