Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future

by Zahi Zalloua

Book Overview

Posthumanism is both a descriptive and a prescriptive term. Firstly, it registers a shift beginning in the late 1960s and epitomized by Foucault's "the death of Man". Secondly, it refers to the future and a new relationship with the non-human, along with a different understanding of human exceptionalism.

In Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future, Zahi Zalloua interrogates this future and shows that "post-" does not necessarily...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350151092
• ISBN13: 9781350151093
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"