Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 340 pages)
Edition:
2014
ISBN:
9781501335709
,
9781501335693
,
9781501335686
Series Statement:
New directions in German studies Vol. 23
Content:
1. Introduction: Posthumanism after Kant / Edgar Landgraf, Gabriel Trop, and Leif Weatherby -- I) DISSECTING THE HUMAN BODY: EMBODIMENT, COGNITION, AND THE EARLY LIFE SCIENCES. 2. Vertiginous Systems of the Soul / Jeffrey West Kirkwood, Binghamton University, USA ; 3. Brain Matters in the German Enlightenment: Animal Cognition and Species Difference in Herder, Soemmerring, and Gall Patrick Fortmann, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA ; 4. Agency without Humans: Normativity and Path Dependence in the 19th-Century Life Sciences / Christian J. Emden, Rice University, USA ; 5. Embodied Phantasy: Johannes Müller and the 19th-Century Neurophysiological Foundations of Critical Posthumanism / Edgar Landgraf, Bowling Green State University, USA -- II) WHO'S AFRAID OF IDEALISM? MATERIALISM, POSTHUMANISM, AND THE POST-KANTIAN LEGACY. 6. Kant and Posthumanism / Carsten Strathausen, University of Missouri, USA ; 7. Intimations of the Posthuman: Kant's Natural Beauty / Peter Gilgen, Cornell University, USA ; 8. Farewell to Ontology: Hegel after Humanism / Leif Weatherby, New York University, USA ; 9. Steps to an Ecology of Geist: Hegel, Bateson, and the Spirit of Posthumanism / John H. Smith, UC Irvine, USA ; 10. Protecting Natural Beauty from Humanism's Violence: The Healing Effects of Alexander von Humboldt's Naturgem lde Elizabeth Millán, DePaul University, USA -- III) CYBORG ENLIGHTENMENT: BOUNDARIES OF THE (POST)HUMAN AROUND 1800. 11. Posthumanist Thinking in the Work of Heinrich von Kleist / Tim Mehigan, University of Queensland, Australia ; 12. Positing the Robotic Self: From Fichte to Ex Machina / Alex Hogue, Coastal Carolina University, USA ; 13. In Defense of Humanism: Envisioning a Posthuman Future and Its Critique in Goethe's Faust / Christian P. Weber, Florida State University, USA ; 14. Beyond Death: Posthuman Perspectives in Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland's Macrobiotics / Jocelyn Holland, California Institute of Technology, USA ; 15. The Indifference of the Inorganic / Gabriel Trop, University of North Carolina, USA -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Content:
"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501335679
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Posthumanism in the age of Humanism New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 ISBN 9781501335679
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
Philosophy
Keywords:
Deutschland
;
Posthumanismus
;
Kantianismus
;
Ideengeschichte 1800-1900
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781501335709
Author information:
Landgraf, Edgar 1967-
Author information:
Weatherby, Leif
Author information:
Trop, Gabriel
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