Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom
Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation - An Argument
by Sylvia Wynter

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Author(s)

Sylvia Wynter

Publication

East Lansing : Michigan State University., 2003

Scope

80 Pages, 29 cm.

Carrier

print

ISBN

9780822358343

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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. In this article Wynter traces the transmutations of the European conception of the human from its early days as a Christian subject within the Latin Church to the emergence of Man1 as a political subject during the Renaissance, followed by the Enlightenment’s Man2, an evolutionary biological-economical creature that still dominates Western ideologies today.

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Keywords

decolonisation

Location

Cabinet 29 - 6: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; Theorie

Remarks

from: The New Centennial Review, Volume 3, Number 3, p. 257-337