The SYSTEM OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AS SEEN BY FRANTZ FANON:

An analysis from recognition and Négritude

Abstract

Through a reconstruction of the Systematizing Concepts, a useful tool for the analysis of Hegelian philosophy, we did a contrast between the notions of recognition through a System of Self-consciences and the anti-colonial criticism mediated by Frantz Fanon. The core of the work is to highlight how the analysis of the colonial context is crucial for being able to debate notions of recognition and, consequently, in the Hegelian sense, an effective System of Self-consciences. In this case, a Dialectic of the Lord and the Servant carried to the ultimate consequences, different from what Hegel envisioned, the Négritude movement and the Fanonian contributions to Philosophy allows a philosophical dialogue that takes into account a foundation stone of Modernity: the dehumanization of the black subject. Thus, questioning a symbol of the philosophical canon that relegates the African continent to a historical void, we make this article with the commitment to revisit modernity from a critical perspective, through an intellectuality historically silenced.