Sylvia Wynter's Decolonial Philosophy
How Being Human Needs an Origin Story
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21314332 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ingrid Andersson (0000-0003-1278-0756, Department of Education Stockholm University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 780-798 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-2004 • E-ISSN: 1741-5446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/edth.12662 |
| OpenAlex | W4403802204 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In this article, Ingrid Andersson discusses the decolonial philosophy of Sylvia Wynter, with a special focus on addressing her concepts of the hybrid human and origin stories. Andersson shows how Wynter's philosophizing about the being of being human is premised on an entanglement of nature and culture that is on par with the posthuman understanding of the ontological inseparability of matter and discourse. She goes on to interrogate some productive tensions between Wynter's decolonial philosophy and posthumanism by pointing out how Wynter's hybrid human formulates an understanding of human nature that is different in itself and not solely in relation to other nonhuman entities. In the final part of the article, she proposes how we, with Wynter, can devise a pedagogical approach that seeks to counteract harmful taxonomizing practices
Epistemology · Higher education · Philosophy of education · Political science · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |