After the Human: Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century
Sherryl Vint
Dec 2020 · Cambridge University Press
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289
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After the Human provides a comprehensive overview of how a range of philosophical, ethical, and political ideas under the framework of posthumanism have transformed humanities scholarship today. Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary scholars and perspectives, it puts into dialogue the major influences from philosophy, literary study, anthropology, and science studies that set the stage for a range of new questions to be asked about the relationship of the human to other life. The book's central argument is that posthumanism's challenge to and disruption of traditional humanist knowledge is so significant as to presage a sea-change from the humanities into the posthumanities. After the Human documents the emergence of posthumanist ideas in the fractures within traditional disciplines, examines the new objects of analysis that thus came into prominence, and theorizes new interdisciplinary methods of study that followed.
About the author
Sherryl Vint is a leading scholar of speculative fiction, whose research focuses on embodiment, posthumanism, and biopolitics. She has published widely, including Bodies of Tomorrow (2007), Animal Alterity (2010), The Futures Industry (2015), and Science Fiction: The Essential Knowledge (2020). She has received research awards from the Science Fiction Research Association.
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