Tapji Garba
Biographic Data
| ID | 4451331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tapji Garba |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tapji |
| FAMILY NAME | Garba |
| SIGNATURE | GARBA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Words Made Flesh: Sylvia Wynter and Religion
The first sustained treatment of religion and religions in the scholarship of a prominent Caribbean thinker Sylvia Wynter is a profoundly transdisciplinary scholar whose works span an impressive array of theory, literature, science, anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies as well as different forms, including essays, plays, a novel, and a 935-page unpublished manuscript entitled “Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World.” Whatever…
Words Made Flesh: Sylvia Wynter and Religion
Care and Cure, Some Preliminary Notes
Time, History, Freedom, and the Machiavellian Problem
In this article, I take up the issue of political theology and social reproduction within the terms laid out by J. G. A. Pocock and his framing of a problem he calls the Machiavellian problem. While this involves articulating the relationship between political theology and social reproduction in general my main concern is with the relationship between political theology, social reproduction and volition. To cash this out, I will explore these the…
On Materialism, Freedom, and Self-Consciousness
As a problem for thought, racial slavery is seated at the intersection of moral philosophy and philosophy of nature where the figure of the slave, a being who is wholly determined by external forces, serves as the negative measure of the capacity to make ethical judgments beyond one’s own private inclinations or exercise self-restraint for the sake of the common good. Recent theoretical interventions into our political-ecological predicament tend…
Blackness Before Race and Race as Reoccupation: Reading Sylvia Wynter with Hans Blumenberg
This essay explores Sylvia Wynter’s appropriation of German philosopher Hans Blumenberg’s “reoccupation thesis” to clarify a number of key metaphysical moves in Wynter’s oeuvre with respect to her sociogenic method. We are motivated by the sense that attending to Wynter’s reading of Blumenberg will afford appreciation of her return to Scholastic questions, including 1) how this return activates the problem of race in the longue durée and 2) what …
Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left, by Ernest Bloch, trans. Loren Goldman and Peter Thompson
Slavery is a Metaphor: A Critical Commentary on Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor”
This essay offers a critical analysis of the metaphysical and methodological presuppositions of Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor”. While Tuck and Yang position settler colonial spatiality as structured by a settler‐native‐slave triad, we argue that their critique of metaphor entails the collapse of the triad into a settler‐native dyad, the reduction of slavery to forced labour, and a division between the material and…
Slavery is a Metaphor: A Critical Commentary on Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor”
This essay offers a critical analysis of the metaphysical and methodological presuppositions of Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor”. While Tuck and Yang position settler colonial spatiality as structured by a settler‐native‐slave triad, we argue that their critique of metaphor entails the collapse of the triad into a settler‐native dyad, the reduction of slavery to forced labour, and a division between the material and…
Blackness Before Race and Race as Reoccupation: Reading Sylvia Wynter with Hans Blumenberg
This essay explores Sylvia Wynter’s appropriation of German philosopher Hans Blumenberg’s “reoccupation thesis” to clarify a number of key metaphysical moves in Wynter’s oeuvre with respect to her sociogenic method. We are motivated by the sense that attending to Wynter’s reading of Blumenberg will afford appreciation of her return to Scholastic questions, including 1) how this return activates the problem of race in the longue durée and 2) what …
Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left, by Ernest Bloch, trans. Loren Goldman and Peter Thompson
Slavery is a Metaphor: A Critical Commentary on Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor”
This essay offers a critical analysis of the metaphysical and methodological presuppositions of Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor”. While Tuck and Yang position settler colonial spatiality as structured by a settler‐native‐slave triad, we argue that their critique of metaphor entails the collapse of the triad into a settler‐native dyad, the reduction of slavery to forced labour, and a division between the material and…
Blackness Before Race and Race as Reoccupation: Reading Sylvia Wynter with Hans Blumenberg
This essay explores Sylvia Wynter’s appropriation of German philosopher Hans Blumenberg’s “reoccupation thesis” to clarify a number of key metaphysical moves in Wynter’s oeuvre with respect to her sociogenic method. We are motivated by the sense that attending to Wynter’s reading of Blumenberg will afford appreciation of her return to Scholastic questions, including 1) how this return activates the problem of race in the longue durée and 2) what …
On Materialism, Freedom, and Self-Consciousness
As a problem for thought, racial slavery is seated at the intersection of moral philosophy and philosophy of nature where the figure of the slave, a being who is wholly determined by external forces, serves as the negative measure of the capacity to make ethical judgments beyond one’s own private inclinations or exercise self-restraint for the sake of the common good. Recent theoretical interventions into our political-ecological predicament tend…
Care and Cure, Some Preliminary Notes
Time, History, Freedom, and the Machiavellian Problem
In this article, I take up the issue of political theology and social reproduction within the terms laid out by J. G. A. Pocock and his framing of a problem he calls the Machiavellian problem. While this involves articulating the relationship between political theology and social reproduction in general my main concern is with the relationship between political theology, social reproduction and volition. To cash this out, I will explore these the…
Words Made Flesh: Sylvia Wynter and Religion
The first sustained treatment of religion and religions in the scholarship of a prominent Caribbean thinker Sylvia Wynter is a profoundly transdisciplinary scholar whose works span an impressive array of theory, literature, science, anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies as well as different forms, including essays, plays, a novel, and a 935-page unpublished manuscript entitled “Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World.” Whatever…
Words Made Flesh: Sylvia Wynter and Religion
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works)