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The persistence of the human : consciousness, meta-body and survival in contemporary film and literature /
Recent narrative fiction and film increasingly exploit, explore and thematize the embodied mind, revealing the tenacity of a certain brand of humanism. The presence of narratively based concepts of personal identity even in texts which explore posthuman possibilities is strong proof that our basic u...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill Rodopi,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Consciousness, literature & the arts ;
48. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Persistence of the Human: Consciousness, Meta-body and Survival in Contemporary Film and Literature; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction; 1 The Human, Consciousness and Its Temporality; Humanism; Human Freedom; What Makes One Human?; Consciousness; Daniel Dennett on Consciousness: The Human as Virtual Machine; Temporality, Consciousness and Ethics; Immersion and Framing: The Experience of Film and Literature; Embodied Drafts; 2 Testing the Human: Trauma, Memory and Consciousness; Trauma and the Temporality of the Self; Memento.
- The Spectral Past SelfMemory, Identity and Ethics; Rendering Pain Visible in Memento; Eliminate the Past, Control the Future; 3 The Phantom Limb: Specters, Trauma, and Meta-body; Meta-body; The Body Artist; Projecting the Self into a Different Emptiness; Erasing the Self; You are Made out of Time; Recovering the Self; The Bird and the Strand of Hair; Sous le sable; Water; Time Lets Fall Its Drop; Meta-body in Sous le sable; Naissance des fantômes; 4 Survival: Human and Posthuman; The Temporality of the Paralyzed Body; Starting with "I"; Correcting the Past; Destroying the Self to Save It.
- Posthuman ConsciousnessParfit on Transpersonal Survival; Postpersonal Identity; The Absent Machine; The Machine Speaks; Involuntary Immortality; The Recuperative Project; Self-possession; Conclusion; Pain and the Clean Slate; The Other Penetrating / Occupying the Self; Bibliography; Index.