Sylvia Wynter
Biographic Data
| ID | 409893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sylvia Wynter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sylvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Wynter |
| SIGNATURE | WYNTER S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 870 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Greater Truth than Any Other Truth You Know: A Conversation with Professor Sylvia Wynter on Origin Stories
Sylvia Wynter is an emeritus professor from Stanford University. She is also an essayist and creative writer whose work is deeply informed by the twentieth century Anti-Colonial Movement and the U
Beyond Liberal and Marxist Leninist Feminisms: Towards an Autonomous Frame of Reference
Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species?: Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations
The Ceremony Found: Towards the Autopoetic Turn/Overturn, its Autonomy of Human Agency and Extraterritoriality of (Self-)Cognition1
This chapter revisits the 1984 essay ‘The Ceremony Must Be Found: After Humanism’. That essay proposes that the ‘finding of a ceremony’ able to come to terms with the issue of race in its late modern purely biocentric expression as Du Bois' ‘Color Line’, would require a kind of rupture or transformation analogous to that effected by Lay-humanist intellectuals at the end of the Western-European Middle Ages. It further argues that the emancipation …
On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Reimprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, ofDesêtre: Black Studies Toward the Human Project
Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An Argument
This article intervenes in debates about the human and its relation to the political by arguing that the very conception of the human as it has been historically configured in the West is not only insufficient but also dangerous. Sylvia Wynter traces the genealogy of "Man" as a concept produced through the process of coloniality, demonstrating how this concept has served to legitimize power structures and justify violence against those who do not…
Beyond the Categories of the Master Conception: The Counterdoctrine of the Jamesian Poiesis
Beyond the Word of Man: Glissant and the New Discourse of the Antilles
By SYLVIA WYNTER Introduction to the Argument. During his childhood years 1940-44, Edouard Glissant, like all residents of the French colonial island of Martinique, found himself in a lived situation of double blockade. Outside, the United States fleet blockaded the ships of Vichy France. Internally, not only did the presence of the navy and the naval authority of Vichy France as the cause of the U.S. blockade lead to a lack of food on the export…
On Disenchanting Discourse: "Minority" Literary Criticism and beyond
n order to introduce and integrate, within the space of this paper, several new objects of knowledge which cannot meaningfully exist within the discursive vrai (truth) of our present fundamental arrangements of knowledge' nor within the analogic of its (ethico-) theoretical foundations,2 I shall make use of a series of epigraphs placed at different points of the argument. Their function will be to project the possibility of a demonic observer gro…
The Ceremony Must be Found: After Humanism
Sylvia Wynter, The Ceremony Must be Found: After Humanism, boundary 2, Vol. 12/13, Vol. 12, no. 3 - Vol. 13, no. 1, On Humanism and the University I: The Discourse of Humanism (Spring - Autumn, 1984), pp. 19-70
Sambos and Minstrels
imperative task of transformation, of counterresistance to the resistance of the Real world, to the quest of the marked excluded blacks to affirm themselves. This culture, perceived as a threat by the dominant order, was marginalized and contained by the fabrication of the minstrel stereotype. The white caricature of the minstrel tradition expressed the bourgeoiseye-view of all popular culture. Just as cricket in England, once a popular game, was…
Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An Argument
This article intervenes in debates about the human and its relation to the political by arguing that the very conception of the human as it has been historically configured in the West is not only insufficient but also dangerous. Sylvia Wynter traces the genealogy of "Man" as a concept produced through the process of coloniality, demonstrating how this concept has served to legitimize power structures and justify violence against those who do not…
Beyond the Word of Man: Glissant and the New Discourse of the Antilles
By SYLVIA WYNTER Introduction to the Argument. During his childhood years 1940-44, Edouard Glissant, like all residents of the French colonial island of Martinique, found himself in a lived situation of double blockade. Outside, the United States fleet blockaded the ships of Vichy France. Internally, not only did the presence of the navy and the naval authority of Vichy France as the cause of the U.S. blockade lead to a lack of food on the export…
The Ceremony Must be Found: After Humanism
Sylvia Wynter, The Ceremony Must be Found: After Humanism, boundary 2, Vol. 12/13, Vol. 12, no. 3 - Vol. 13, no. 1, On Humanism and the University I: The Discourse of Humanism (Spring - Autumn, 1984), pp. 19-70
On Disenchanting Discourse: "Minority" Literary Criticism and beyond
n order to introduce and integrate, within the space of this paper, several new objects of knowledge which cannot meaningfully exist within the discursive vrai (truth) of our present fundamental arrangements of knowledge' nor within the analogic of its (ethico-) theoretical foundations,2 I shall make use of a series of epigraphs placed at different points of the argument. Their function will be to project the possibility of a demonic observer gro…
Sambos and Minstrels
imperative task of transformation, of counterresistance to the resistance of the Real world, to the quest of the marked excluded blacks to affirm themselves. This culture, perceived as a threat by the dominant order, was marginalized and contained by the fabrication of the minstrel stereotype. The white caricature of the minstrel tradition expressed the bourgeoiseye-view of all popular culture. Just as cricket in England, once a popular game, was…
Sambos and Minstrels
imperative task of transformation, of counterresistance to the resistance of the Real world, to the quest of the marked excluded blacks to affirm themselves. This culture, perceived as a threat by the dominant order, was marginalized and contained by the fabrication of the minstrel stereotype. The white caricature of the minstrel tradition expressed the bourgeoiseye-view of all popular culture. Just as cricket in England, once a popular game, was…
The Ceremony Must be Found: After Humanism
Sylvia Wynter, The Ceremony Must be Found: After Humanism, boundary 2, Vol. 12/13, Vol. 12, no. 3 - Vol. 13, no. 1, On Humanism and the University I: The Discourse of Humanism (Spring - Autumn, 1984), pp. 19-70
On Disenchanting Discourse: "Minority" Literary Criticism and beyond
n order to introduce and integrate, within the space of this paper, several new objects of knowledge which cannot meaningfully exist within the discursive vrai (truth) of our present fundamental arrangements of knowledge' nor within the analogic of its (ethico-) theoretical foundations,2 I shall make use of a series of epigraphs placed at different points of the argument. Their function will be to project the possibility of a demonic observer gro…
Beyond the Word of Man: Glissant and the New Discourse of the Antilles
By SYLVIA WYNTER Introduction to the Argument. During his childhood years 1940-44, Edouard Glissant, like all residents of the French colonial island of Martinique, found himself in a lived situation of double blockade. Outside, the United States fleet blockaded the ships of Vichy France. Internally, not only did the presence of the navy and the naval authority of Vichy France as the cause of the U.S. blockade lead to a lack of food on the export…
Beyond the Categories of the Master Conception: The Counterdoctrine of the Jamesian Poiesis
Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An Argument
This article intervenes in debates about the human and its relation to the political by arguing that the very conception of the human as it has been historically configured in the West is not only insufficient but also dangerous. Sylvia Wynter traces the genealogy of "Man" as a concept produced through the process of coloniality, demonstrating how this concept has served to legitimize power structures and justify violence against those who do not…
On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Reimprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, ofDesêtre: Black Studies Toward the Human Project
Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species?: Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations
The Ceremony Found: Towards the Autopoetic Turn/Overturn, its Autonomy of Human Agency and Extraterritoriality of (Self-)Cognition1
This chapter revisits the 1984 essay ‘The Ceremony Must Be Found: After Humanism’. That essay proposes that the ‘finding of a ceremony’ able to come to terms with the issue of race in its late modern purely biocentric expression as Du Bois' ‘Color Line’, would require a kind of rupture or transformation analogous to that effected by Lay-humanist intellectuals at the end of the Western-European Middle Ages. It further argues that the emancipation …
Beyond Liberal and Marxist Leninist Feminisms: Towards an Autonomous Frame of Reference
A Greater Truth than Any Other Truth You Know: A Conversation with Professor Sylvia Wynter on Origin Stories
Sylvia Wynter is an emeritus professor from Stanford University. She is also an essayist and creative writer whose work is deeply informed by the twentieth century Anti-Colonial Movement and the U
Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Ceremony (2 works) · History (2 works)