What Is Posthumanism?: Volume 8

by Cary Wolfe

Book Overview

What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and technological? Can a new kind of humanities-posthumanities-respond to the redefinition of humanity's place in the world by both the technological and the biological or "green" continuum in which the "human"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816666156
• ISBN13: 9780816666157
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"