Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 1243 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Porträts
ISBN:
9783031049583
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 Critical Posthumanism: An Overview -- Introduction -- Critical Posthumanism: An Overview -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Posthumanism Across the Ages -- 2 Posthumanism and Deep Time -- Introduction -- Anthropocene: Worlds With and Without Us -- The Proliferation of Geostories and the Geologization of Posthumanism -- Ancestrality and the Humanities -- Extinction and Deep Ecology -- Cross-References -- References -- 3 Classical Posthumanism -- Introduction -- Classical Literature and Posthumanism -- Becoming-Animal -- Becoming-Monster -- Becoming-Human -- Becoming-Machine and Object -- Classical Posthumanism and the Cognitive Prosthetic Turn -- Logos, Pharmacological Interventions, and the Technical Construction of Human Fate -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- 4 Early Modern Posthumanism -- Introduction -- Actaeon Ego Sum -- Losing Face -- Who Left the Dogs Out? -- Watery Matters -- Conclusion: Places We Haven´t Been -- Cross-References -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 5 Medieval Posthumanism -- Introduction -- The Posthuman Beowulf -- Monstrous Natures -- The Medieval HumAnimal -- Monstrosity, Disability, and the Future of Medieval Posthumanism -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- 6 Posthumanism and the Enlightenment -- Introduction -- Humanism -- Embodiment -- Aesthetic and Environmental Awareness -- Beyond the Enlightenment Subject -- Enlightenment Materialisms -- Outlook -- Cross-References -- References -- 7 Romanticism and Critical Posthumanism -- Introduction -- Toward a Romantic Critical Posthumanism -- Romantic Critical Posthumanist Scholarship -- How Did We Get Here? Romanticism Then, to Our Posthumanist Now -- Two Strains of Critical Posthumanist Romantic Scholarship.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031049576
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 ISBN 9783031049576
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Author information:
Herbrechter, Stefan 1965-
Author information:
Rossini, Manuela 1964-
