Resisting alienation

Rousseau, Marx, Fanon and St. Paul

In Keith Hart, Self in the World: Connecting Life’s Extremes (2022) I argue that we can only be fully human if self and society reinforce each other.  Achieving this is a real, but largely unconscious need for most people. Chapter 3 anchors this judgment in a discussion of the anti-colonial intellectuals—three pan-Africanists: W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. Jam…