Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black

by R. A. Judy and R.A. Judy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478011025
• ISBN13: 9781478011026
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"