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

Auteur(s)
Sylvia Wynter
Uitgever
East Lansing : Michigan State University., 2003
Omvang
80 p., 29 cm.
Drager
print
ISBN
9780822358343

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.


Trefwoorden
decolonisation
Locatie in de bibliotheek
Kast 29 - 6: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; Theorie
Opmerkingen
from: The New Centennial Review, Volume 3, Number 3, p. 257-337