(Un)Learning to Be Human?

Stefan Herbrechter held academic positions at the Universität Heidelberg, Germany, Leedstrinity University and Coventry University, UK. He has published widely on English and comparative literature, cultural theory and media studies and is the author of Posthumanism – A Critical Analysis (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Before Humanity (Brill, 2021), as well as the editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism (Springer, 2022), director of the Critical Posthumanism Network (http://criticalposthumanism.net/) and general editor of the Critical Posthumanisms series (https://brill.com/view/serial/CPH). For more detailed information please go to stefanherbrechter.com.

• AcknowledgementsPreface: Returning to Critical PosthumanismImage CreditsIntroduction: Critical Posthumanism – Ten Years On1 Poststructuralism and the End(s) of Humanism1 Post-, Again2 Post-structural-ism3 Poststructuralism and Posthumanism2 Posthumanism, Subjectivity, Autobiography1 Post-human-ism2 The Death of the Subject and Autobiography3 Addressing the Posthumanist Subject4 Posthumanism and Autobiography5 Posthuman(ist) Life Writing6 Post-script: De-Facebook3 The Rhetoric of the Posthuman1 Rhetoric and Philosophical Anthropology2 The Rhetoric of the Posthuman – Disfigurations3 Postanthropocentric Rhetoric4 ps: A Note on Posthumanist Rhetoric and New Media4 (Un)ravelling1 Storying, or, Why Critical Posthumanism, Still2 Unlearning, or the Linguistic Return3 Reworlding, or Carrying the Other5 Posthumanist Education?1 The Posthumanisation of the Education System2 Posthumanism and Pedagogy3 Humanism as a Technology of Domestication4 Critical posthumanist education5 Conclusion6 (Un)learning to Be Human1 Posthumanism and Education2 Un-learning3 Addressing the Posthumanist Subject4 Animals in School – Zoomimesis and Rewilding7 Posthumanism ‘without’ Technology, or How the Media Made Us Post/Human: From Originary Technicity to Originary Mediality1 Posthumanism as Discourse2 Critical Posthumanism, or Posthumanism ‘without’ Technology3 Posthumanism and the Media, or from Originary Technicity to Originary Mediality4 Postscript: Posthumanism and the Future of the Humanities8 Postfiguration, or, the Desire of the Posthuman1 Posthumanism: Discourse and Figure2 Disfiguration, or, What Does Mimesis Hide?3 From Anthropomimesis to Zoomimesis4 After Mimesis: Postfiguration?5 Examples5.1 Camilla Adami – Primati/Jacques Derrida – Tête-à-tête5.2 Tim Flach – More than Human5.3 The “Monkey Selfie”5.4 Daniel Lee – Manimals (1993)9 Perfectibilities, or, How (Not) to Improve Humans1 Positionings2 Perfectibilities3 Future Perfect: Constructions of the (Human) Future4 Room for Improvement, or There Is Always Some5 Desire of the Posthuman, or Yearning for Perfection6 Could Do Better: Humanism without Humans or Humans without Humanism10 Making Humans Better: Posthumanism ‘beyond’ Violence1 What Is Wrong with Humanism? or, We Have to Get Better2 Critical Posthumanism between Post- and Trans-, or, Better Not…3 There’s Something Wrong with Perfectibility, or: Get Better Soon!4 Posthumanistic Politics beyond Good and Evil, or, Let’s Do the Correction Now!5 Unlearning Humanism and the Question of Justice, or, Better Does Not Necessarily Mean Good6 And Finally: Best Wishes… from the TerminatorConclusion: Dehumanisation, or, Humanism without Humans1 Humans without, Not: Without Humans2 Dehumanisation3 Humanism without Humans, Humans without Humanism, Humanism without HumanismBibliographyIndex