Beyond the Doctrine of Man

Introduction: The Projects of Unsettling Man
Joseph Drexler-Dreis and Kristien Justaert | 1
Part I: Sylvia Wynter and the Project of Unsettling Man
1. Where Life Itself Lives
Mayra Rivera | 19
2. Unsettling Blues: A Decolonial Reading of the Blues Episteme
Rufus Burnett Jr. | 36
3. Not Your Papa’s Wynter: Women of Color Contributions toward Decolonial Futures
Xhercis Méndez and Yomaira C. Figueroa | 60
Part II: Religious Cosmologies and the Project of Unsettling Man
4. Enfleshing Love: A Decolonial Theological Reading of Beloved
M. Shawn Copeland | 91
5. Nat Turner’s Orientation beyond the Doctrine of Man
Joseph Drexler-Dreis | 113
6. Mystical Bodies of Christ: Human, Crucified, and Beloved
Andrew Prevot | 134
7. African Humanism: Between the Cosmic and the Terrestrial
Patrice Haynes | 161
Part III: Biopolitics and the Project of Unsettling Man
8. Bodies That Speak
Linn Marie Tonstad | 193
9. Life beyond the Doctrine of Man: Out of This World with Michel Henry and Radical Queer Theory
Kristien Justaert | 217
10. Black Life/Schwarz-Sein: Inhabitations of the Flesh
Alexander G. Weheliye | 237
Acknowledgments | 263
Bibliography | 265
List of Contributors | 289
Index | 293