Beyond the Doctrine of Man
Decolonial Visions of the Human

Joseph Drexler-Dreis (Edited by), Kristien Justaert (Edited by), Rufus Burnett (Contributions by), M. Shawn Copeland (Contributions by), Joseph Drexler-Dreis (Contributions by), Yomaira C. Figueroa (Contributions by), Patrice Haynes (Contributions by), Kristien Justaert (Contributions by), Xhercis Méndez (Contributions by), Andrew Prevot (Contributions by), Mayra Rivera (Contributions by), Linn Marie Tonstad (Contributions by), Alexander Weheliye (Contributions by)

9780823286898

Hardback, published 3 December 2019

304 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.592 kg

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

Introduction: The Projects of Unsettling Man
Joseph Drexler-Dreis and Kristien Justaert 1
Part I: Sylvia Wynter and the Project of Unsettling Man
1. Where Life Itself Lives
Mayra Rivera 19
2. Unsettling Blues: A Decolonial Reading of the Blues Episteme
Rufus Burnett Jr. 36
3. Not Your Papa's Wynter: Women of Color Contributions toward Decolonial Futures
Xhercis Méndez and Yomaira C. Figueroa 60
Part II: Religious Cosmologies and the Project of Unsettling Man
4. Enfleshing Love: A Decolonial Theological Reading of Beloved
M. Shawn Copeland 91
5. Nat Turner's Orientation beyond the Doctrine of Man
Joseph Drexler-Dreis 113
6. Mystical Bodies of Christ: Human, Crucified, and Beloved
Andrew Prevot 134
7. African Humanism: Between the Cosmic and the Terrestrial
Patrice Haynes 161
Part III: Biopolitics and the Project of Unsettling Man
8. Bodies That Speak
Linn Marie Tonstad 193
9. Life beyond the Doctrine of Man: Out of This World with Michel Henry and Radical Queer Theory
Kristien Justaert 217
10. Black Life/Schwarz-Sein: Inhabitations of the Flesh
Alexander G. Weheliye 237
Acknowledgments 263
Bibliography 265
List of Contributors 289
Index 293