Sentient flesh : thinking in disorder, poiēsis in Black / R.A. Judy.
| Author/creator | Judy, R.A., 1954- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Durham : Duke University Press, 2020. |
| Copyright Date | ©2020 |
| Description | xix, 597 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Black outdoors : innovations in the poetics of study Black outdoors. ^A1411092 |
| Contents | Body and Flesh -- On Lohengrin's Swan -- A Style of Interiority and Thinking -- Asymptotic Thinking -- By Interiority Free of Eschatology -- Sentient Flesh -- An Ontologically Discordant Being -- By Discrepant Taxonomy -- A Semiosis of Flesh Thinking -- By Flesh Speaking Semiologically -- Sentient Flesh Dancing -- Juba and the Buzzard Lope Play -- Ethnographic Epistemēs Abuts Performative Technē Poiētikē -- Poiēsis in Black -- Consciousness Articulated with Semiosis -- Doctrine of Submission with "The Renaissance of Ethics" -- Para-semiosis -- All that Comes with Paraontology -- Worldliness -- Historicity -- Primitive Thingliness -- The They of Primitive We -- In Para-semiosis, Divisible Person Us Be -- Us Ain't Paraontological -- Para-semiosis, being-in-flight-with-one-another -- Love ain't Sacrificial -- Para-semiosis, Poiēsis in Black and Love-improper -- Coda, Gifting Blues Love-improper |
| Abstract | "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, 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 Judy theorizes as "thinking in disorder," or "poiēsis 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 us in thrall. Erudite and capacious, Judy's Sentient Flesh offers a major intervention into the black study of life"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Judy, R.A., 1954- Sentient flesh Durham : Duke University Press, 2020. 9781478012559 |
| LCCN | 2020013671 |
| ISBN | 9781478011026 |
| ISBN | 9781478009962 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1478009969 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1478011025 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | E185.625 .J839 2020 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |