Before humanity: posthumanism and ancestrality
"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, anth…
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- Full title :Before humanity : posthumanism and ancestrality / Stefan Herbrechter.
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"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?"--
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- Publication Date:2022
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- Publisher(s):Brill
- Place of Publication:Leiden
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2022
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- Description:1 online resource.
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- ISBN:9004502505, 9789004502505
- oclc:on1277182266
- LC Classification:GN281
- Dewey Decimal:599.93/8
Table of Contents
Introduction: Before -- Chapter 1 The Other Human: On William Golding's The Inheritors -- Interlude 1 Languages and Evolutions -- Interlude 2 Animism without Humans, or Belief without Belief -- Interlude 3 Ape/Man -- Chapter 2 About to Forget ... the Human: On Max Frisch's Man in the Holocene -- Interlude 4 Geology and Deep Time -- Interlude 5 Lascaux, Geophilia and the 'Cradle of Humanity' -- Chapter 3 Unsociable Robots: Empathy in Robot and Frank -- Conclusion: Becoming Inhuman
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