Before humanity: posthumanism and ancestrality

by Herbrechter, Stefan

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Title Statements

Full title :Before humanity : posthumanism and ancestrality / by Stefan Herbrechter.

Summary

"Before Humanity takes up the question of the post- in the posthuman from the position of ancestrality. Speculating about who or what comes after the human inevitably throws us back to our very beginnings. The before in Before Humanity in this context takes on two meanings: 1) what happened before we apparently became human? - which translates into a critical reading of paleo-anthropology, as well as evolutionary narratives of hominization; 2) living through the end of a certain (humanist, anthropocentric) notion of humanity, what tasks lie before us? - which provokes a critical reading of the Anthropocene and current narratives of geologization. In other words, Before Humanity investigates conceptualizations of humanity and asks whether we have ever been human and if not, what could, or maybe what should we have been?"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2022

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2022

The Physical Object

Description:xvi, 245 pages ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789004502444, 9004502440
oclc:on1276901588
LC Classification:GN281
Dewey Decimal:599.93/8

Subjects

Anthropologie philosophique Futurologists Futurologues Homme -- Évolution Human evolution -- Philosophy Paléoanthropologie Paleoanthropology Philosophical anthropology