Thinking with Sylvia Wynter: "What does it mean to be a Human Being?” A Reading Series
Thu, Oct 14
|The Bottom
Join us for a 4-week series & reading group exploring Colonialism, Racism, and achieving another world beyond Man and whiteness. Led by Dr. David Kline, Dept. of Religious Studies at UTK
Time & Location
Oct 14, 2021, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
The Bottom, 2340 E Magnolia Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA
About the Event
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About Sylvia Wynter:
Jamaican philosopher Sylvia Wynter is one of the most exciting and brilliant thinkers of the 20th and 21st century. A profoundly transdisciplinary scholar, Wynter pulls from a truly impressive array of theory, literature, science, anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies. Her writings also span an array of different mediums including essays, plays, a novel, and frequent contributions to Jamaican newspapers. By interrogating the ways in which we have been
conditioned to understand ourselves in a world where “Man,” her term for the West’s fundamentally racist version of being human, has dominated the global order, Wynter aims at nothing less than a complete reimagining of what it means to be human. This four session series/reading group will introduce the thought of Wynter by reading together two key essays and applying them to our own…