Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. The projects of unsettling man 1
4. Part I. Sylvia Wynter and the project of unsettling man
5. Chapter 1. Where life itself lives 19
6. Chapter 2. Unsettling blues: a decolonial reading of the blues episteme 36
7. Chapter 3. Not your papa’s wynter: women of color contributions toward decolonial futures 60
8. Part II. Religious cosmologies and the proj ect of unsettling man
9. Chapter 4. Enfleshing love: a decolonial theological reading of beloved 91
10. Chapter 5. Nat Turner’s orientation beyond the doctrine of man 113
11. Chapter 6. Mystical bodies of christ: human, crucified, and beloved 134
12. Chapter 7. African humanism: between the cosmic and the terrestrial 161
13. Part III. Biopolitics and the project of unsettling man
14. Chapter 8. Bodies that speak 193
15. Chapter 9. Life beyond the doctrine of man: out of this world with michel henry and radical queer theory 217
16. Chapter 10. Black life/schwarz- sein: inhabitations of the flesh 237
17. Acknowledgments 263
18. Bibliography 265
19. Contributors 289
20. Index 293