After Philosophy, Black Thought: Sylvia Wynter and the Ends of Knowledge

Omedi Ochieng University of Colorado Boulder

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article invites critical inquiry into the rhetorical form of Sylvia Wynter’s thought. The author identifies the key to Wynter’s thought as charting a cartography that is intransigently committed to a vision of the intellectual imagination at its most ambitious while staying true to the grain and detail of the liminal, the lumpen, and the particular. The upshot is that Wynter wants to open up a space for the imagination and labor of Black thought, one that comes after and beyond philosophy and theory.

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Philosophy & Rhetoric
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2023-07-04
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10.5325/philrhet.56.1.0092
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