Posthumanism (repost)
Posthumanism (PTLC - Polity Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature) by Pramod K. Nayar
English | 4 Oct. 2013 | ISBN: 0745662404 | 208 Pages | PDF | 1.11 MB
English | 4 Oct. 2013 | ISBN: 0745662404 | 208 Pages | PDF | 1.11 MB
This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical–ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants.
Nayar first maps the political and philosophical critiques of traditional humanism, revealing its exclusionary and ‘speciesist’ politics that position the human as a distinctive and dominant life form. He then contextualizes the posthumanist vision which, drawing upon biomedical, engineering and techno–scientific studies, concludes that human consciousness is shaped by its co–evolution with other life forms, and our human form inescapably influenced by tools and technology. Finally the book explores posthumanism’s roots in disability studies, animal studies and bioethics to underscore the constructed nature of ‘normalcy’ in bodies, and the singularity of species and life itself.