This philosopher adapted a slave trading term for a single healthy 25-year-old male to name the “pieza conceptual frame” that she found in C. L. R. James’s Beyond a Boundary. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Jamaican philosopher who advocated “being human as praxis” and used the “sociogenic principle” in a historical analysis from “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being.”
ANSWER: Sylvia Wynter
[10e] “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being” traces the historical development of “[this figure]-1” and “[this figure]-2.” Wynter traces the “biocentric” concept of this figure to the Renaissance, as in Pico’s “Oration on the Dignity of” this figure.
ANSWER: Man [or humanity; or humans; or homo sapiens; accept Man1 or Man2; accept Oration on the Dignity of Man or Oratio de hominis dignitate]
[10m] Wynter analyzed how this author’s concept of désêtre, or “wrongness of being,” is imposed on non-Western others in a paper “On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory.” This author wrote “Discourse on Colonialism.”
ANSWER: Aimé Césaire [or Aimé Fernand David Césaire]
<JB, Philosophy>