Being Posthuman

Ontologies of the Future

AvZahi Zalloua

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Posthumanism is both a descriptive and a prescriptive term. Firstly, it registers a shift beginning in the late 1960s and epitomized by Foucault’s “the death of Man”. Secondly, it refers to the future and a new relationship with the non-human, along with a different understanding of human exceptionalism. In Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future, Zahi Zalloua interrogates this future and shows that “post-” does not necessarily mean ‘after’ or that what comes after is more advanced than what has gone before. He pursues this line of inquiry across four distinct, yet interrelated, figures: cyborgs, animals, objects, and racialized and excluded ‘others’. These figures disrupt the narrative of the ‘human’ and its singularity and by reading them together, Zalloua determines that it is only when posthumanist discourse is combined with psychoanalysis that subjectivity can be properly examined.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-01-14
Mått:136 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt:360 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350151093

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Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Zahi Zalloua is Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature and Professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies at Whitman College and editor of The Comparatist. His research interests include literary theory, interdisciplinary approaches to philosophy and literature, experimental fiction, and gender studies. He is the author of Žižek on Race: Toward an Anti-Racist Future (Bloomsbury, 2020).

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Traversing the history of philosophy, Zahi Zalloua brilliantly shows the ethical urgency of an inhuman posthumanism that attends to those who reside in the neighborhood of the human but are never fully at home there. Engaging with philosophy, film, and literature, Zalloua articulates the ways in which the cyborg, animal, object and racialized other put pressure on the concept of the human. Along the way, Zalloua powerfully demonstrates the importance of both continental philosophy and psychoanalysis to developing a notion of the posthuman.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: The Improper of the Human Chapter 1: CyborgsChapter 2: AnimalsChapter 3: Object FeverChapter 4: Black BeingConclusion: Inhuman Posthumanism