ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relevance of phenomenology for the understanding of a combative conception of decolonization, as opposed to mainstream positivistic and metaphorical interpretations of the concept. At the same time, combative decoloniality demands the decolonization of phenomenology. The works of the Afro-Caribbean thinkers Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire provide indispensable tools for the generation of a decolonizing form of phenomenology that contributes to the understanding of the lived experience of colonized populations and the conditions of possibility for and unfolding of combative decolonial attitudes that challenge the catastrophe of modernity/coloniality. This exploration includes a critical analysis of Heideggerian and Sartrean authenticity as well as an alternative to the understanding of phenomenology in relation to the crisis of the European sciences.
