Catalyzed by Sylvia Wynter’s questioning of modern/colonial descriptions of the human person, the essays in Beyond the Doctrine of Man interrogate the problem of these definitions of the human person and take up the struggle to decolonize and unsettle such descriptions.
Contributors: Rufus Burnett Jr., M. Shawn Copeland, Yomaira C. Figueroa, Patrice Haynes, Xhercis Méndez, Andrew Prevot, Mayra Rivera, Linn Marie Tonstad, Alexander G. Weheliye
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- BEYOND THE DOCTRINE OF MAN
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- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: The Projects of Unsettling Man
- Part I SYLVIA WYNTER AND THE PROJECT OF UNSETTLING MAN
- 1. Where Life Itself Lives
- 2. Unsettling Blues: A Decolonial Reading of the Blues Episteme
- 3. Not Your Papa’s Wynter: Women of Color Contributions toward Decolonial Futures
- Part II RELIGIOUS COSMOLOGIES AND THE PROJECT OF UNSETTLING MAN
- 4. Enfleshing Love: A Decolonial Theological Reading of Beloved
- 5. Nat Turner’s Orientation beyond the Doctrine of Man
- 6. Mystical Bodies of Christ: Human, Crucified, and Beloved
- 7. African Humanism: Between the Cosmic and the Terrestrial
- Part III BIOPOLITICS AND THE PROJECT OF UNSETTLING MAN
- 8. Bodies That Speak
- 9. Life beyond the Doctrine of Man: Out of This World with Michel Henry and Radical Queer Theory
- 10. Black Life/Schwarz-Sein: Inhabitations of the Flesh
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
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