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- Presents a comprehensive view of posthumanism, the posthuman and their genealogies
- Critically discusses important strands and issues raised within the discourse of posthumanism
- Highlights the ways in which posthumanism has affected the relationship between the humanities and the sciences
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Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys and speculates on the ways in which the posthumanist paradigm emerged, transformed, and might further develop across the humanities. With its focus on the posthuman as a figure, on posthumanism as a social discourse, and on posthumanisation as an on-going historical and ontological process, the volume highlights the relationship between the humanities and sciences. The essays engage with posthumanism in connection with subfields like the environmental humanities, health humanities, animal studies, and disability studies. The book also traces the historical representations and understanding of posthumanism across time. Additionally, the contributions address genre and forms such as autobiography, games, art, film, museums, andtopics such as climate change, speciesism, anthropocentrism, and biopolitics to name a few. This handbook considers posthumanism’s impact across disciplines and areas of study.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Stefan Herbrechter is a writer and research fellow at Privatdozent at Heidelberg University.
Ivan Callus is Professor of English at the University of Malta.
Manuela Rossini works as the programme coordinator of the Developmental Science Network Zurich, an interdisciplinary Center of Competence at the University of Zurich
Marija Grech is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Department of English at the University of Malta and a Visiting Fellow of the School of Humanities & Languages at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Megen de Bruin-Molé (University of Southampton) is a scholar and university lecturer working in the UK.
Christopher John Müller is a lecturer in Cultural Studies & Media at Macquarie University, Sydney and an Honorary Research Associate in Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism
Editors: Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus, Manuela Rossini, Marija Grech, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Christopher John Müller
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42681-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Living Reference Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Humanities
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42681-1
Number of Pages: X, 1290
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literature and Technology/Media, Contemporary Literature, Digital Humanities, Humanism, Social Anthropology, Educational Philosophy