Name: JOÃO PAULO OLIVIO SANTANA
Publication date: 25/01/2024
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| DANIEL ARRUDA NASCIMENTO | Presidente |
| LUCIO VAZ DE OLIVEIRA | Examinador Interno |
| WILLIAM COSTA FILHO | Examinador Externo |
Summary: This dissertation aims to philosophically reflect on the relationship between
race and voluntary death represented in its variants, of suicide and selfsacrifice. To do so, among other approaches to the theme, decolonial
philosophy has been chosen as a reference point for this dissertation. Two
philosophers of the decolonial school have fueled reflections on the issue:
the Martinican psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, who
contributes through his critique of French colonialism, largely grounded in
the Hegelian Master-Slave Dialects; and the historian and philosopher
Achille Mbembe, who contributes with notions that permeate his work on
necropolitics. Following the distinctions between the thoughts and
approaches of the authors, this work sought to understand them through
two different perspectives: that of race though the experience of the slave,
in which we contemplate the relationship between the slave system,
represented in the figure of the slave owner, and the slave as it was
analyzed in the light of the Hegelian-dialectic interpreted by Fanon in
Black Skin, White Masks; and that of race through necropolitics, in which it
was perceived that suicide serves necropower as any other death, such as its
seen in Achille Mbembe’s essay Necropolitics, and insofar as necropower
aims to eliminate racialized populations.
