Sylvia Wynter Quotes on Politics
Sylvia Wynter is a Jamaican philosopher, dramatist, and professor emerita at Stanford University, whose work has reshaped contemporary thinking on humanism, race, and the very category of the human. This page collects quotes attributed to Sylvia Wynter on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Sylvia Wynter:
“Man is not the human, but a particular historical genre that has overrepresented itself as the species.”
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Attributed to Sylvia Wynter:
“From the demonic ground we may glimpse a new genre of being human.”
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Attributed to Sylvia Wynter:
“Truth has its colonial geography; freedom must invent another.”
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Attributed to Sylvia Wynter:
“We need a new humanism, born after the wreck of the old.”
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“Public officials of the judicial system of Los Angeles routinely use the acronym ‘N.H.I.’ to refer to any case that involved a breach of the rights of young Black males who belonged to the jobless category of the inner city ghettos. N.H.I. means ‘no humans involved.”
No Humans Involved’: An Open Letter to My Colleagues.” Knowledge on Trial 1 (1994)