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Author:   Stefan Herbrechter
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   3
Weight:   0.564kg
ISBN:  

9789004502444

ISBN 10:   9004502440
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   09 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preamble Introduction: Before ... 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 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? 3 Unsociable Robots Empathy in Robot & Frank 1 Empathy Makes 'us' Human? 2 Robot & Frank 3 Empathy and Sociable Robots 4 Posthuman(ist) Empathy? Conclusion Becoming In human 1 So You Think You're Becoming Human? 2 Post/Anthropology - Before and After Humans 3 Inhumanism, or, Becoming Inhuman Bibliography Index

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Stefan Herbrechter was a Reader in Cultural Theory at Coventry University and Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Heidelberg University. He has published widely on literature, culture and media. His Posthumanism - A Critical Analysis (2013 [2009]) is one of the founding texts of critical posthumanism. For more information see http://stefanherbrechter.com and http://criticalposthumanism.net/.

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