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About Posthumanism

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.

Table Of Contents

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 Fiction5. Interdisciplinarity and the Posthumanities

6. Posthumanism, Digitalization and New Media

7. Posthumanity Subject and System

Afterword: The Other Side of Life

Bibliography

Index

Reviews

With apocalyptic voices about the human and humanism all around us, this genealogy

METAPHYSICS

MODERN PHILOSOPHY

(SIXTEENTH-CENTURY TO

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY)

NINETEENTH-CENTURY

PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY - GENERAL

PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

PHILOSOPHY OF GENDER AND

SEXUALITY

PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE

PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS

AND LOGIC

PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL

PHILOSOPHY

TWENTIETH-CENTURY

PHILOSOPHY

POSTHUMANISM

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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 Posthumanismto the posthumanism debates. His

approach puts critical pressure in particular upon simplistic equations of technological

prostheses and posthuman futures. Herbrechter develops an intellectual genealogysituating 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.

Posthumanismwill 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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