AAAS581S
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Sylvia Wynter and the Question of Caribbean Philosophy
Subject
AAAS
Catalog Number
581S
Title
Sylvia Wynter and the Question of Caribbean Philosophy
Course Description
A course on Sylvia Wynter, alongside an archipelago of Caribbean oeuvres by Firmin, Césaire, Fanon, Glissant, etc. How to map Caribbean philosophy, when it has long been critical of modern philosophy as a discourse of critical exceptionalism; a mode of bourgeois rationalist production dividing labor between the intellectuals and the workers? Wynter makes use of a Latin American paradigm of autopoiesis and embodied cognition, proposing a 'ceremony able epistemologically to emancipate humankind's knowledge of the physical and purely biological levels of reality from our order-stabilizing / legitimating symbolic codes.' More readings by McKittrick, Henry, Bogues, Casimir, Chancy, Nesbitt, etc.
Grading Basis
Graded
Course Typically Offered
Occasionally
Consent (Permission Number)
No Special Consent Required
Min Units
3
Max Units
3
Seminar
Crosslisted Courses
General Education Curriculum Codes
CCI - (CCI) Cross Cultural Inquiry, ALP - (ALP) Arts, Literature & Performance, CZ - (CZ) Civilizations