After the Human

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After the Human

Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century

Literary theory Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary reference works Social and political philosophy Social and cultural anthropology

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Collection: After Series

Language: English

Published by: Cambridge University Press

Published on: 10th December 2020

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9781108865159


Overview

After the Human provides a comprehensive overview of how a range of philosophical, ethical, and political ideas under the framework of posthumanism have transformed humanities scholarship today.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary scholars and perspectives, it puts into dialogue the major influences from philosophy, literary study, anthropology, and science studies that set the stage for a range of new questions to be asked about the relationship of the human to other life.

Central Argument

The book's central argument is that posthumanism's challenge to and disruption of traditional humanist knowledge is so significant as to presage a sea-change from the humanities into the posthumanities.

Content and Focus

After the Human documents the emergence of posthumanist ideas in the fractures within traditional disciplines, examines the new objects of analysis that thus came into prominence, and theorizes new interdisciplinary methods of study that followed.

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