Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human

Harvard HDS

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…