Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Joseph Drexler-Dreis
• Kristien Justaert

Titel

Nat Turner’s Orientation beyond the Doctrine of Man

Ist Teil von

• Beyond the Doctrine of Man, 2019, p.113

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Fordham University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Sylvia Wynter argues that the “politics of being,” or the ways the human person is signified within the modern world-system and the ways this signification is contested, has been the primary struggle within Western modernity.¹ Wynter turns to the “general upheaval of the 1960s” as a set of events that unsettled the delineation of being within European colonialism and the modern world-system that emerged from colonialism. At the same time, the 1960s introduced a conception of the human person that exceeded the imaginative possibilities within European modernity. She specifically locates an alternative vision of the human in liberation movements in