Posthumanism In The Age Of Humanism
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Posthumanism In The Age Of Humanism
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Author : Edgar Landgraf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Posthumanism In The Age Of Humanism written by Edgar Landgraf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Humanism categories.
Nietzsche S Posthumanism
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Author : Edgar Landgraf
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2023-08-22
Nietzsche S Posthumanism written by Edgar Landgraf and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-22 with Philosophy categories.
A timely and trenchant commentary on the centrality of Nietzsche’s thought for our time While many posthumanists claim Nietzsche as one of their own, rarely do they engage his philosophy in any real depth. Nietzsche’s Posthumanism addresses this need by exploring the continuities and disagreements between Nietzsche’s philosophy and contemporary posthumanism. Focusing specifically on Nietzsche’s reception of the life sciences of his day and his reflections on technology—research areas as central to Nietzsche’s work as they are to posthumanism—Edgar Landgraf provides fresh readings of Nietzsche and a critique of post- and transhumanist philosophies. Through Landgraf’s inquiry, lesser-known aspects of Nietzsche’s writings emerge, including the neurophysiological basis of his epistemology (which anticipates contemporary debates on embodiment), his concerns with insects and the emergent social properties they exhibit, and his reflections on the hominization and cultivation effects of technology. In the process, Landgraf challenges major commonplaces about Nietzsche’s philosophy, including the idea that his social theory asserts the rights of “the strong” over “the weak.” The ethos of critical posthumanism also offers a new perspective on key ethical and political contentions of Nietzsche’s writings. Nietzsche’s Posthumanism presents a uniquely framed introduction to tenets of Nietzsche’s thought and major trends in posthumanism, making it an essential exploration for anyone invested in Nietzsche and his contemporary relevance, and in posthumanism and its genealogy. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.
Human Nature In An Age Of Biotechnology
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Author : Tamar Sharon
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-10-11
Human Nature In An Age Of Biotechnology written by Tamar Sharon and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-11 with Philosophy categories.
New biotechnologies have propelled the question of what it means to be human – or posthuman – to the forefront of societal and scientific consideration. This volume provides an accessible, critical overview of the main approaches in the debate on posthumanism, and argues that they do not adequately address the question of what it means to be human in an age of biotechnology. Not because they belong to rival political camps, but because they are grounded in a humanist ontology that presupposes a radical separation between human subjects and technological objects. The volume offers a comprehensive mapping of posthumanist discourse divided into four broad approaches—two humanist-based approaches: dystopic and liberal posthumanism, and two non-humanist approaches: radical and methodological posthumanism. The author compares and contrasts these models via an exploration of key issues, from human enhancement, to eugenics, to new configurations of biopower, questioning what role technology plays in defining the boundaries of the human, the subject and nature for each. Building on the contributions and limitations of radical and methodological posthumanism, the author develops a novel perspective, mediated posthumanism, that brings together insights in the philosophy of technology, the sociology of biomedicine, and Michel Foucault’s work on ethical subject constitution. In this framework, technology is neither a neutral tool nor a force that alienates humanity from itself, but something that is always already part of the experience of being human, and subjectivity is viewed as an emergent property that is constantly being shaped and transformed by its engagements with biotechnologies. Mediated posthumanism becomes a tool for identifying novel ethical modes of human experience that are richer and more multifaceted than current posthumanist perspectives allow for. The book will be essential reading for students and scholars working on ethics and technology, philosophy of technology, poststructuralism, technology and the body, and medical ethics.
Posthumanism In The Age Of Humanism
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Author : Edgar Landgraf
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2018-10-04
Posthumanism In The Age Of Humanism written by Edgar Landgraf and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
The literary and scientific renaissance that struck Germany around 1800 is usually taken to be the cradle of contemporary humanism. Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism shows how figures like Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe as well as scientists specializing in the emerging modern life and cognitive sciences not only established but also transgressed the boundaries of the “human.” This period so broadly painted as humanist by proponents and detractors alike also grappled with ways of challenging some of humanism's most cherished assumptions: the dualisms, for example, between freedom and nature, science and art, matter and spirit, mind and body, and thereby also between the human and the nonhuman. Posthumanism is older than we think, and the so-called “humanists” of the late Enlightenment have much to offer our contemporary re-thinking of the human.
Post And Transhumanism
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Author : Robert Ranisch
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Release Date : 2014
Post And Transhumanism written by Robert Ranisch and has been published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Humanism categories.
Post- and Transhumanism are being introduced with respect to foundational questions, utopian issues, normative and evaluative elements, ontological perspectives and arts. The topics are divided up into five sections with the following titles: Confessions, Lands of Cockaygne, Neo-Socratic Reflections, Ontologies of Becoming and Paragone of the Arts.
Posthumanism
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Author : Pramod K. Nayar
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2018-03-08
Posthumanism written by Pramod K. Nayar and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both amaterial condition and a developing philosophical-ethical projectin the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants andimplants. Nayar first maps the political and philosophical critiques oftraditional humanism, revealing its exclusionary and‘speciesist’ politics that position the human as adistinctive and dominant life form. He then contextualizes theposthumanist vision which, drawing upon biomedical, engineering andtechno-scientific studies, concludes that human consciousness isshaped by its co-evolution with other life forms, and our humanform inescapably influenced by tools and technology. Finally thebook explores posthumanism’s roots in disability studies,animal studies and bioethics to underscore the constructed natureof ‘normalcy’ in bodies, and the singularity of speciesand life itself. As this book powerfully demonstrates, posthumanism marks a radicalreassessment of the human as constituted by symbiosis,assimilation, difference and dependence upon and with otherspecies. Mapping the terrain of these far-reaching debates,Posthumanism will be an invaluable companion to students ofcultural studies and modern and contemporary literature.
Critical Posthumanism And Planetary Futures
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Author : Debashish Banerji
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-10-07
Critical Posthumanism And Planetary Futures written by Debashish Banerji and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-07 with Social Science categories.
This volume is a critical exploration of multiple posthuman possibilities in the 21st century and beyond. Due to the global engagement with advanced technology, we are witness to a species-wise blurring of boundaries at the edge of the human. On the one hand, we find ourselves in a digital age in which human identity is being transformed through networked technological intervention, a large part of our consciousness transferred to "smart" external devices. On the other hand, we are assisted---or assailed---by an unprecedented proliferation of quasi-human substitutes and surrogates, forming a spectrum of humanoids with fuzzy borders. Under these conditions, critical posthumanism asks, who will occupy and control our planet: Will the "superhuman" merely serve as another sign under which new regimes of dominance are spread across the earth? Or can we discover or invent technologies of existence to counter such dominance? It is issues such as these which are at the heart of this new volume of explorations of the posthuman. The essays in this volume offer leading-edge thought on the subject, with special emphases on postmodern and postcolonial futures. They engage with questions of subalternity and feminism vis-à-vis posthumanism, dealing with issues of subjugation, dispensability and surrogacy, as well as the possibilities of resistance, ethical politics or subjective transformation from South Asian archives of cultural and spiritual practice. This volume is a valuable addition to the on-going global dialogues on posthumanism, indispensable to those, from across several disciplines, who are interested in postcolonial and planetary futures.
Nietzsche S Posthumanism
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Author : Edgar Landgraf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-09-26
Nietzsche S Posthumanism written by Edgar Landgraf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-26 with categories.
A timely and trenchant commentary on the centrality of Nietzsche's thought for our time While many posthumanists claim Nietzsche as one of their own, rarely do they engage his philosophy in any real depth. Nietzsche's Posthumanism addresses this need by exploring the continuities and disagreements between Nietzsche's philosophy and contemporary posthumanism. Focusing specifically on Nietzsche's reception of the life sciences of his day and his reflections on technology--research areas as central to Nietzsche's work as they are to posthumanism--Edgar Landgraf provides both fresh readings of Nietzsche and a critique of post- and transhumanist philosophies. Through Landgraf's inquiry, lesser-known aspects of Nietzsche's writings emerge, including the neurophysiological basis of his epistemology (which anticipates contemporary debates on embodiment), his concerns with insects and the emergent social properties they exhibit, and his reflections on the hominization and cultivation effects of technology. In the process, Landgraf challenges major commonplaces about Nietzsche's philosophy, including the idea that his social theory asserts the rights of "the strong," over "the weak." The ethos of critical posthumanism also offers a new perspective on some of the key ethical and political contentions of Nietzsche's writings. Nietzsche's Posthumanism presents a uniquely framed introduction to tenets of Nietzsche's thought and major trends in posthumanism, making it an essential exploration for anyone invested in Nietzsche and his contemporary relevance, and in posthumanism and its genealogy.
Transhumanism And Posthumanism In Twenty First Century Narrative
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Author : Sonia Baelo-Allué
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-05
Transhumanism And Posthumanism In Twenty First Century Narrative written by Sonia Baelo-Allué and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative brings together fifteen scholars from five different countries to explore the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in contemporary culture and more specifically in key narratives, written in the second decade of the 21st century, by Dave Eggers, William Gibson, John Shirley, Tom McCarthy, Jeff Vandermeer, Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, Cixin Liu and Helen Marshall. Some of these works engage in the premises and perils of transhumanism, while others explore the qualities of the (post)human in a variety of dystopian futures marked by the planetary influence of human action. From a critical posthumanist perspective that questions anthropocentrism, human exceptionalism and the centrality of the ‘human’ subject in the era of the Anthropocene, the scholars in this collection analyse the aesthetic choices these authors make to depict the posthuman and its aftereffects.
Posthumanism In The Age Of Humanism
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Author : Edgar Landgraf
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2018-10-04
Posthumanism In The Age Of Humanism written by Edgar Landgraf and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with Literary Collections categories.
The literary and scientific renaissance that struck Germany around 1800 is usually taken to be the cradle of contemporary humanism. Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism shows how figures like Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe as well as scientists specializing in the emerging modern life and cognitive sciences not only established but also transgressed the boundaries of the human. This period so broadly painted as humanist by proponents and detractors alike also grappled with ways of challenging some of humanism's most cherished assumptions: the dualisms, for example, between freedom and nature, science and art, matter and spirit, mind and body, and thereby also between the human and the nonhuman. Posthumanism is older than we think, and the so-called humanists of the late Enlightenment have much to offer our contemporary re-thinking of the human.