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Before Humanity Posthumanism and Ancestrality.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Herbrechter, Stefan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2021.
Colección:Critical Posthumanisms Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preamble
  • Introduction: Before ...
  • Chapter 1 The Other Human: On William Golding's The Inheritors
  • 1 Prehistoric Fiction and Ancestrality
  • 2 The Inheritors: Morality, Ideology, Humanism
  • 3 Paleontology and the Neanderthal
  • 4 Language, Cognition and 'Becoming Human'
  • 5 Animism and Empathy
  • 6 Becoming Human?
  • Interlude 1 Languages and Evolutions
  • Interlude 2 Animism without Humans, or Belief without Belief
  • 1 'Believing' in Animism
  • 2 Alter-Anthropological Animism (or a-a-a)
  • 3 Posthumanist Animism?
  • 4 Techno-Animism and the Re-Enchantment of Science
  • 5 Animism Under Erasure
  • 6 The Animism to Come
  • 7 Seriously, But Perhaps Not Too Seriously?
  • Interlude 3 Ape/Man
  • Chapter 2 About to Forget ... the Human: On Max Frisch's Man in the Holocene
  • 1 Herr Geiser Is Losing His Humanity ...
  • 2 Catastrophe, Ecocide and Extinction in Man in the Holocene
  • 3 Forgetting and Geiser's Mnemotechnics
  • 4 Verzettelung
  • 5 Pre- and Posthistory, Geology and Ancestrality
  • 6 Before Humanity: Dementia and Ecography
  • Interlude 4 Geology and Deep Time
  • Interlude 5 Lascaux, Geophilia and the 'Cradle of Humanity'
  • 1 Bataille
  • The Neolithic 'Origin' of Art and Humanity
  • 2 Baudrillard
  • Lascaux and Simulation
  • 3 Inhumanist Aesthetic?
  • Chapter 3 Unsociable Robots: Empathy in Robot and Frank
  • 1 Empathy Makes 'Us' Human?
  • 2 Robot & Frank
  • 3 Empathy and Sociable Robots
  • 4 Posthuman(ist) Empathy?
  • Conclusion: Becoming Inhuman
  • 1 So You Think You're Becoming Human?
  • 2 Post/Anthropology
  • Before and After Humans
  • 3 Inhumanism, or, Becoming Inhuman
  • Bibliography
  • Index