ABSTRACT
The samples of Afro-Caribbean philosophy examined in the previous section have made clear not only the nature of this body of thought but also some of its major problems. Our focus on Wynter, Habermas, and Afro-American philosophy in this section of the text represents a shift away from exposition and toward issues in and around the field of Afro-Caribbean philosophy. One of the major problems that emerged from our sampling of Harris’s work was that of potential unities that
have remained unrealized. In particular, we focused on the duality that has inhibited richer exchanges between historicists and poeticists. This chapter examines the attempt of Sylvia Wynter to bridge this divide. Wynter’s attempt is a part of her larger effort at rethinking the problems of postcolonial reconstruction in the region, following the collapse of both liberal and socialist projects of transformation. Wynter’s primary instrument for building this new bridge is poststructuralist theory.
