Fordham University Press
Beyond the Doctrine of Man
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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
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Mayra Rivera is a professor of religion and Latinx studies at Harvard University. Rivera works at the intersections between continental philosophy of religion, literature, and theories of coloniality, race, and gender—with particular attention to Caribbean postcolonial thought. Her research explores the relationship between discursive and material dimensions in shaping human embodiment. Her most recent book, Poetics of the Flesh (Duke University Press, 2015), analyzes theological, philosophical, and political descriptions of flesh as metaphors for understanding how social discourses
materialize in human bodies. Rivera is currently developing a project that explores narratives of catastrophe in twentieth century Caribbean writing.
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Introduction. The projects of unsettling man
1 - Part I. Sylvia Wynter and the project of unsettling man
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Chapter 1. Where life itself lives
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Chapter 2. Unsettling blues: a decolonial reading of the blues episteme
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Chapter 3. Not your papa’s wynter: women of color contributions toward decolonial futures
60 - Part II. Religious cosmologies and the proj ect of unsettling man
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Chapter 4. Enfleshing love: a decolonial theological reading of beloved
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Chapter 5. Nat Turner’s orientation beyond the doctrine of man
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Chapter 6. Mystical bodies of christ: human, crucified, and beloved
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Chapter 7. African humanism: between the cosmic and the terrestrial
161 - Part III. Biopolitics and the project of unsettling man
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Chapter 8. Bodies that speak
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Chapter 9. Life beyond the doctrine of man: out of this world with michel henry and radical queer theory
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Chapter 10. Black life/schwarz- sein: inhabitations of the flesh
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Acknowledgments
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Bibliography
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Contributors
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