Biocultural Creatures: Toward a New Theory of the Human

by Samantha Frost

In Biocultural Creatures , Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging the idea of human exceptionalism as well as other theories of subjectivity that rest on a distinction between biology and culture, Frost proposes that humans are biocultural creatures who quite literally are cultured within the material, social, and symbolic worlds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822361280
• ISBN13: 9780822361282
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"