Beyond the Doctrine of Man

Decolonial Visions of the Human

• Author(s): Joseph Drexler-Dreis, Kristien Justaert,
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Pages: 304
• ISBN_10: 0823285871
  ISBN_13: 9780823285877
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Christian Theology / Liberation , Philosophy / Political , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory ,

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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