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

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , [2020]; 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Disciplina: 128
• Soggetto topico: Philosophical anthropology; Postcolonialism; Decolonization
• Soggetto non controllato: Decolonial; Sylvia Wynter; biopolitics; flesh; human; new humanism
• Persona (resp. second.): Drexler-DreisJoseph; JustaertKristien
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond the doctrine of man
• ISBN: 0-8232-8588-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813590503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II