Sylvia Wynter : on being human as praxis / Katherine McKittrick, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McKittrick, Katherine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wynter, Sylvia.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Civilization, Modern--Philosophy.

Civilization, Modern.

Race--Philosophy.

Race.

Human ecology--Philosophy.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

"The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore race, the legacy of colonialism, and representations of humanness. Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis is a critical genealogy of Wynter's work, highlighting her insights on how race, location, and time together inform what it means to be human. The contributors explore Wynter's stunning reconceptualization of the human in relation to concepts of blackness, modernity, urban space, the Caribbean, science studies, migratory politics, and the interconnectedness of creative and theoretical resistances. The collection includes an extensive conversation between Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick that delineates Wynter's engagement with writers such as Frantz Fanon, W. E. B. DuBois, and Aimé Césaire, among others; the interview also reveals the ever-extending range and power of Wynter's intellectual project, and elucidates her attempts to rehistoricize humanness as praxis."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Yours in the intellectual struggle : Sylvia Wynter and the realization of the living / Katherine McKittrick

Unparalleled catastrophe for our species? Or, to give humanness a different future : conversations / Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick

Before man : Sylvia Wynter's rewriting of the modern episteme / Denise Ferreira da Silva

Sylvia Wynter : what does it mean to be human? / Walter D. Mignolo

Still submerged : the uninhabitability of urban redevelopment / Bench Ansfield

Axis, bold as love : on Sylvia Wynter, Jimi Hendrix, and the promise of science / Katherine McKittrick

Strategic anti-essentialism : decolonizing decolonization / Nandita Sharma

Genres of human : multiculturalism, cosmo-politics, and the Caribbean Basin / Rinaldo Walcott

From masquerade to maskarade : Caribbean cultural resistance and the rehumanizing project / Carole Boyce Davies

"Come on kid, let's go get the thing" : the sociogenic principle and the being of being Black/human / Demetrius L. Eudell.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822358343

0822358344

9780822375852

0822375850

OCLC:

895229883