Human as double bind: Sylvia Wynter and the genre of “man”

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dc.contributor.authorParker, Emily
dc.contributor.departmentTowson University. Department of Philosophy and Religious Studiesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-18T16:16:13Z
dc.date.available2021-10-18T16:16:13Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractSylvia Wynter's philosophy of sociogenesis is an implicit response to a double bind instituted by conceiving of humanity in what she calls generic terms. Either one is human and measured by a morphology that privileges an implicit whiteness, masculinity, cis-ness, hetero-ness, symmetry, and ability, or one is a biological organism without necessarily having recourse to the recognition humans share with each other. Wynter addresses this double bind in arguing first that what is political has in fact always had ecological implications. Bodies denied in politics are in fact of great consequence for politics. This implicit morphology of the genre “Man” has always included the presumption that “Man” can and does act unilaterally. And second, Wynter addresses the double bind in her reading of Fanonian sociogenesis. There is no generic body, as Wynter reads Fanon. The way in which a body is regarded, given the “sociogenic principles” of a political context, is an indistinguishably biological-political matter.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.32.3.0439en_US
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.format.extent11 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m28ndr-h9nq
dc.identifier.citationParker E. A. (2018). The Human as Double Bind: Sylvia Wynter and the Genre of “Man.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 32(3), 439-449. https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.32.3.0439en_US
dc.identifier.issn0891-625X
dc.identifier.uri10.5325/jspecphil.32.3.0439
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/23103
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherPennsylvania State University Pressen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtTowson University
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThe Journal of Speculative Philosophy;volume 32, number 3
dc.subjectWynter, Sylviaen_US
dc.subjectThe bodyen_US
dc.subjectRenaissanceen_US
dc.subjectSociogenesisen_US
dc.subjectFanon, Frantz, 1925-1961en_US
dc.titleHuman as double bind: Sylvia Wynter and the genre of “man”en_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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