{"product_id":"sylvia-wynter-9780822358206","title":"Sylvia Wynter","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003e[On] Being Human as Praxis\u003c\/i\u003e is a major contribution to growing efforts to bring Sylvia Wynter’s critical thought to the fore of contemporary critical social theory. The collection secures Wynter’s status as a heretical intellectual insisting on the relevance of the radical Black\/Caribbean decolonial tradition to the systemic crises of the early 21st century planet.\"  -- Anthony Bayani Rodriguez * Antipode *\u003cbr\u003e\"In their combination, and in their resonance with Wynter’s intricate and expansive opening meditation on race, science, and human being, these essays present a complex and coherent intellectual project, at once deeply rooted and generously rhizomic.\" -- Kaiama L. Glover * Contemporary Women's Writing *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e 1. Yours in the Intellectual Struggle: Sylvia Wynter and the Realization of the Living \/ Katherine McKittrick 1\u003cbr\u003e 2. Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species? Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations \/ Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick 9\u003cbr\u003e 3. Before \u003ci\u003eMan\u003c\/i\u003e: Sylvia Wynter's Rewriting of the Modern Episteme \/ Denise Ferreira da Silva 90\u003cbr\u003e 4. Sylvia Wynter: What Does It Mean to Be Human? \/ Walter D. Mignolo 106\u003cbr\u003e 5. Still Submerged: The Uninhabitability of Urban Redevelopment \/ Bench Ansfield 124\u003cbr\u003e 6. Axis, Bold as Love: On Sylvia Wynter, Jimi Hendrix, and the Promise of Science \/ Katherine McKittrick 142\u003cbr\u003e 7. Strategic Anti-Essentialism: Decolonizing Decolinization \/ Nandita Sharma 164\u003cbr\u003e 8. Genres of Human: Multiculturalism, Cosmo-politics, and the Caribbean Basin \/ Rinaldo Walcott 183\u003cbr\u003e 9. From Masquerade to \u003ci\u003eMaskarade\u003c\/i\u003e: Caribbean Cultural Resistance and the Rehumanizing Project \/ Carole Boyce Davies 203\u003cbr\u003e 10. \"Come on Kid, Let's Go Get the \u003ci\u003eThing\u003c\/i\u003e\": The Sociogenic Principle and the \u003ci\u003eBeing\u003c\/i\u003e of Being Black \/ Demetrius L. Eudell 226\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 249\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 275\u003cbr\u003e Index 277","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406085497175,"sku":"9780822358206","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822358206.jpg?v=1730494475","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sylvia-wynter-9780822358206","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}