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AboutPosthumanism
What does it mean to be human today? The answer to this question, which is as old as
the human species itself, is becoming less and less certain. Current technological
developments increasingly erode our traditional humanist reflexes: consciousness,
emotion, language, intelligence, morality, humour, mortality - all these no longer
demonstrate the unique character and value of human existence. Instead, the spectre of
the 'posthuman' is now being widely invoked as the 'inevitable' next evolutionary stage
that humans are facing.
Who comes after the human? This is the question that posthumanists are taking as their
starting point. This critical introduction understands posthumanism as a discourse,
which, in principle, includes everything that has been and is being said about the figure
of the 'posthuman'. It outlines the genealogy of the various posthuman 'scenarios' in
circulation and engages with their theoretical and philosophical assumptions and social
and political implications. It does so by connecting the philosophical debate about the
future of humanity with a range of texts, including examples from new media, popular
culture, science and the media.
TableOfContents
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Towards a Critical Posthumanism
2. A Genealogy of Posthumanism
3. Our Posthuman Humanity and the Multiplicity of Its Forms
4. Posthumanism and Science Fiction
5. Interdisciplinarity and the Posthumanities
6. Posthumanism, Digitalization and New Media
7. Posthumanity Subject and System
Afterword: The Other Side of Life
Bibliography
Index
Reviews
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and cultural analysis of our posthuman condition stands out as a very welcome
alternative of thinking the end(s) of Man, demonstrating that the critical humanities are
needed more than ever. Manuela Rossini (PhD), Institute of Advanced Study in the
Humanities and the Social Sciences, University of Bern, and Executive Director of
the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Europe,
One welcomes Stefan Herberechters Posthumanism to the posthumanism debates. His
approach puts critical pressure in particular upon simplistic equations of technological
prostheses and posthuman futures. Herbrechter develops an intellectual genealogy
situating the varieties of posthumanism in relation to anticipatory strains in philosophy
from Nietzsche to Derrida and in related critical practices of postmodernism and
poststructuralism. Subsequent discussion ranges across posthumanist frontiers from
matters of embodiment, the literary imaginary, disciplinarity, and digitalization, to the
interplays of deconstruction and systems theory and of bio- and thanato-politics.
Herbrechters arguments are persuasive. His exposition is modest and lucid.
Posthumanism will bring students new to posthumanism up to speed as well as sharpen
scholarly debate. Bruce Clarke, author of Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative
and Systems,
Herbrechter's critical analysis of posthumanism is a wide-ranging and ambitious
approach to what is doubtless the most significant intellectual challenge for the
humanities today. Herbrechter provides a lucid overview of complex but vital issues,
avoiding the pitfalls of naive technophilia or apocalyptic gloom. Instead, his timely and
stimulating discussion shows how a critical appraisal of the posthuman can help us to
elucidate who and what we are at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Russ
West-Pavlov, Professor of English, University of Pretoria,
Herbrechter's book is written with a sharp lucidity, and very much fulfils its task of being
a critical intervention into the discourse of posthumanism. John P. Merrick, Review
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