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1 online resource (261 p.) |
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Critical Posthumanisms Ser |
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Critical Posthumanisms Ser
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Contents |
Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preamble -- Introduction: Before ... -- Chapter 1 The Other Human: On William Golding's The Inheritors -- 1 Prehistoric Fiction and Ancestrality -- 2 The Inheritors: Morality, Ideology, Humanism -- 3 Paleontology and the Neanderthal -- 4 Language, Cognition and 'Becoming Human' -- 5 Animism and Empathy -- 6 Becoming Human? -- Interlude 1 Languages and Evolutions -- Interlude 2 Animism without Humans, or Belief without Belief -- 1 'Believing' in Animism -- 2 Alter-Anthropological Animism (or a-a-a) |
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3 Posthumanist Animism? -- 4 Techno-Animism and the Re-Enchantment of Science -- 5 Animism Under Erasure -- 6 The Animism to Come -- 7 Seriously, But Perhaps Not Too Seriously? -- Interlude 3 Ape/Man -- Chapter 2 About to Forget ... the Human: On Max Frisch's Man in the Holocene -- 1 Herr Geiser Is Losing His Humanity ... -- 2 Catastrophe, Ecocide and Extinction in Man in the Holocene -- 3 Forgetting and Geiser's Mnemotechnics -- 4 Verzettelung -- 5 Pre- and Posthistory, Geology and Ancestrality -- 6 Before Humanity: Dementia and Ecography -- Interlude 4 Geology and Deep Time |
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Interlude 5 Lascaux, Geophilia and the 'Cradle of Humanity' -- 1 Bataille -- The Neolithic 'Origin' of Art and Humanity -- 2 Baudrillard -- Lascaux and Simulation -- 3 Inhumanist Aesthetic? -- Chapter 3 Unsociable Robots: Empathy in Robot and Frank -- 1 Empathy Makes 'Us' Human? -- 2 Robot & Frank -- 3 Empathy and Sociable Robots -- 4 Posthuman(ist) Empathy? -- Conclusion: Becoming Inhuman -- 1 So You Think You're Becoming Human? -- 2 Post/Anthropology -- Before and After Humans -- 3 Inhumanism, or, Becoming Inhuman -- Bibliography -- Index |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
Subject |
Human evolution -- Philosophy
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Philosophical anthropology.
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Paleoanthropology.
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Futurologists.
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philosophical anthropology.
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paleoanthropology.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9789004502505 |
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9004502505 |
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