Twenty years ago, the Jamaican political theorist Anthony Bogues published a book in the Routledge series on Africana Thought titled Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals.1 Rereading it, all these years later, I am struck not only by its insights but also by its continued resonance, the ways it still captures a contemporary demand in Black and Caribbean studies—namely, the demand to think the irreducible difference of the political thought of Black intellectuals. Widely known for his early study on C. L. R. James and his later work on Sylvia Wynter and George Lamming, Bogues’s central preoccupation has been with mapping the contours of a Black radical intellectual tradition and, in particular, with the demonstration of the place within it of an errant idea of the human.2 If one were to identify the central problematic across the varied contributions to the intellectual life of a...
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