Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human
RELIGION 2513
Subject & Catalog Number
Jointly Offered with:
Harvard Divinity School as HDS 2438
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Description
This advanced seminar will study the works of Caribbean theorist, Sylvia Wynter, focusing on her contributions to re-conceptualizing the human. What is the history of modern models for the human? How do those models need to change and why? And how do these interrogations relate to race, global poverty and climate change? The class will study her works in relation with some of her interlocutors, including Aimé Césaire, Franz Fanon, Édouard Glissant, and Michel Foucault, among others. It will also explore her theories of religion and coloniality.
This is a limited enrollment course, see Canvas site for information on enrollment requirements.
Course Notes
Jointly offered by Harvard Divinity School as HDS 2438
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
Department
Religion, The Study of
Course Component
Seminar
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
Arts and Humanities
Course Level
Primarily for Graduate Students
