European Posthumanism - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138675784 ISBN 13: 9781138675780

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

In literary studies and beyond, ‘theory’ and its aftermaths have arguably been over-influenced by US- and UK-based institutions, publishers, journals, and academics. Yet the influence of theory in its Anglo-American forms has remained reliant on Continental European ideas. Similar patterns can be discerned within the latest theoretical paradigm – posthumanism. European ideas influence posthumanism’s challenge to established understandings of humanism, anthropomorphism, and anthropocentrism, which is characterised by the increased urgency and proliferation of questions such as ‘What does it mean to be human?’ and ‘What is the relationship between humans and their nonhuman others (machines, animals, plants, the inorganic, gods, systems, and various figures of liminality, from ghosts to angels, from cyborgs to zombies)?’

European Posthumanism examines the histories and geographies of posthumanism and looks at the genealogies which have been at work in the rise of posthumanist thought and culture. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.

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About the Author

Stefan Herbrechter is a freelance academic; a research fellow at Coventry University, UK; and Privatdozent at Heidelberg University, Germany.

Ivan Callus is Associate Professor of English at the University of Malta.

Manuela Rossini is an independent academic, and an associated researcher in the Department of English at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138675784
• ISBN 13: 9781138675780
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: Herbrechter Stefan, Callus Ivan, Rossini Manuela