Posthumous Life

Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Humanism, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Theory, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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Author: ISBN: 9780231544320
Publisher: Columbia University Press Publication: March 28, 2017
Imprint: Columbia University Press Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9780231544320
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication: March 28, 2017
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Language: English

Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent "turns" toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Questioning the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, the essays in this volume examine the boundaries and significance of the human and the humanities in the wake of various redefinitions of what counts as life. They explore the possibility of theorizing life without assuming it to be either a simple substrate or an always-mediated effect of culture and difference. Posthumous Life provides new ways of thinking about animals, plants, humans, difference, sexuality, race, gender, identity, the earth, and the future.

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Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent "turns" toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Questioning the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, the essays in this volume examine the boundaries and significance of the human and the humanities in the wake of various redefinitions of what counts as life. They explore the possibility of theorizing life without assuming it to be either a simple substrate or an always-mediated effect of culture and difference. Posthumous Life provides new ways of thinking about animals, plants, humans, difference, sexuality, race, gender, identity, the earth, and the future.

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