Beyond the doctrine of man : decolonial visions of the human / Joseph Drexler-Dreis and Kristien Justaert, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Drexler-Dreis, Joseph, editor.

Justaert, Kristien, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Postcolonialism.

Decolonization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction. The projects of unsettling man

Chapter 1. Where life itself lives

Chapter 2. Unsettling blues: a decolonial reading of the blues episteme

Chapter 3. Not your papa’s wynter: women of color contributions toward decolonial futures

Chapter 4. Enfleshing love: a decolonial theological reading of beloved

Chapter 5. Nat Turner’s orientation beyond the doctrine of man

Chapter 6. Mystical bodies of Christ: human, crucified, and beloved

Chapter 7. African humanism: between the cosmic and the terrestrial

Chapter 8. Bodies that speak

Chapter 9. Life beyond the doctrine of man: out of this world with Michel henry and radical queer theory

Chapter 10. Black life/Schwarz- sein: inhabitations of the flesh

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-8588-X

OCLC:

1130029728