Philosophical posthumanism

By:

Ferrando, Francesca

Contributor(s):

Braidotti, Rosi

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Theory in the new humanitiesPublication details: New York I B Touris 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (296 pages)ISBN:

9781350059511

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DDC classification:

23 144 FE-P

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Bloomsbury Collections

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Contents:

Foreword: -- The Posthuman As Exuberant Excess by Rosi Braidotti -- Introduction: -- From Humans to Posthumans -- 1. Part 1 -- What is Philosophical Posthumanism? -- 1. Premises -- 2. From Postmodern to Posthuman -- 3. Posthumanism and Its Others -- 4. The Birth of Transhumanism -- 5. Contemporary Transhumanism(s) -- 6 The Roots of Transhumanism -- 7 Transhumanism and Techno-Enchantment -- 8. Posthumanist Technologies as Ways of Revealing -- 9. Antihumanism and the Übermensch -- 10. Philosophical Posthumanism -- Interlude 1 -- Part 2 -- Of Which "Human" is the Posthuman a "Post"? -- 11. The Power of the Hyphen -- 12. Humanizing -- 13. The Anthropological Machine -- 14. Almost, Human -- 15. Technologies of the Self as Posthumanist (Re)Sources -- 16. The Epiphany of Becoming Human -- 17. Where does the word "human" come from? -- 18. Mammals or Homo sapiens? -- Interlude 2 -- Part 3 -- Have We Always Been Posthuman? -- 19. Post-Anthropocentrism in the Anthropocene -- 20. Posthuman Life -- a. Bios and Zoe -- b. Animate / Inanimate -- 21. Artificial Life -- 22. Evolving Species -- 23. Posthumanities -- 24. Posthuman Bioethics -- 25. Human Enhancement -- 26. Cognitive Autopoiesis -- 27. Posthumanist Perspectivism -- 28. From New Materialisms to Object Oriented Ontology -- 29. Philosophical Posthumanist Ontology -- 30. The Multiverse -- a. The Multiverse in Science -- b. The Multiverse in Philosophy -- c. A Thought Experiment: The Posthuman Multiverse.

Summary: "The notion of 'the human' is in need of urgent redefinition. At a time of radical bio-technological developments, and in light of the political and environmental imperatives of our age, the term 'posthuman' provides an alternative. The philosophical landscape which has developed as a response to the crisis of the human, includes several movements, such as: Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism and Object Oriented Ontology. This book explains the similarities and differences between these currents and offers a detailed examination of a number of topics that fall under the "posthuman" umbrella, including the anthropocene, artificial intelligence and the deconstruction of the human. Francesca Ferrando affords particular focus to Philosophical Posthumanism, defined as a philosophy of mediation which addresses the meaning of humanity not in separation, but in relation to technology and ecology. The posthuman shift thus emerges in the global call for social change, responsible science and multispecies coexistence."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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"The notion of 'the human' is in need of urgent redefinition. At a time of radical bio-technological developments, and in light of the political and environmental imperatives of our age, the term 'posthuman' provides an alternative. The philosophical landscape which has developed as a response to the crisis of the human, includes several movements, such as: Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism and Object Oriented Ontology. This book explains the similarities and differences between these currents and offers a detailed examination of a number of topics that fall under the "posthuman" umbrella, including the anthropocene, artificial intelligence and the deconstruction of the human. Francesca Ferrando affords particular focus to Philosophical Posthumanism, defined as a philosophy of mediation which addresses the meaning of humanity not in separation, but in relation to technology and ecology. The posthuman shift thus emerges in the global call for social change, responsible science and multispecies coexistence."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Also issued in print.

Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement.

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