Books Details
Author : R. A. Judy Pages : 624 pages Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Language : ISBN-10 : 1478011025 ISBN-13 : 9781478011026
Books Descriptions
?In Sentient Flesh R. A. Judy takes up freedman Tom Windham?s 1937 remark ?we
should have our liberty 'cause . . . us is human flesh" as a point of departure for an
extended meditation on questions of the human, epistemology, and the historical
ways in which the black being is understood. Drawing on numerous fields, from
literary theory and musicology, to political theory and phenomenology, as well as
Greek and Arabic philosophy, Judy engages literary texts and performative practices
such as music and dance that express knowledge and conceptions of humanity
appositional to those grounding modern racialized capitalism. Operating as critiques
of Western humanism, these practices and modes of being-in-the-world?which he
theorizes as ?thinking in disorder,? or ?poi?sis in black??foreground the irreducible
concomitance of?flesh, thinking, and personhood. As Judy demonstrates, recognizing
this concomitance is central to finding a way past the destructive force of ontology
that still holds
