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This section examines the emergence of "Man" --> how secularization and scientific advancements of modernity were linked to the colonial project and establishment of racial hierarchies

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This section examines the emergence of "Man" --> how secularization and scientific advancements of modernity were linked to the colonial project and establishment of racial hierarchies

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Renaissance humanists redefined the human outside of theocentric terms, Man became a political subject

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Renaissance humanists redefined the human outside of theocentric terms, Man became a political subject

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Pico della Mirandola's "Oration on the Dignity of Man" is an example of this shift--> human agency and the capacity to shape one's own destiny

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Why is this important? provides a critical point of debate regarding the construction of the human

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Why is this important? provides a critical point of debate regarding the construction of the human

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here we see a shift from religious justification to scientific ones, and how Black people were constructed as the "Human Other"

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here we see a shift from religious justification to scientific ones, and how Black people were constructed as the "Human Other"

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challenges to the dominant conception of "Man" --> how can these challenges inform a new understanding of the human?

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challenges to the dominant conception of "Man" --> how can these challenges inform a new understanding of the human?

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Descriptive statements and Adaptive Truths

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Descriptive statements and Adaptive Truths

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Malthus, Darwin, and Construction of Scarcity

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Malthus, Darwin, and Construction of Scarcity