Overview

A timely dethroning of the human subject and embracing of a new kind of existence, in this book Christine Daigle highlights the affirmative potential of vulnerability amidst unprecedented times of more-than-human crises. By bringing together traditions as diverse as feminist materialist philosophy, phenomenology, and affect theory, Daigle convincingly pleas for the radical embracing of a shared posthumanist vulnerability. Posthuman Vulnerability fills a significant theoretical gap - whilst feminism has explored the affirming power of vulnerability, it's been from a very human-centric viewpoint. In posing a feminist and posthuman take on vulnerability, Daigle is bridging traditions in a totally original and much needed way.

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Author:   Christine Daigle ,  Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University the Netherlands)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781350302884

ISBN 10:   1350302880
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   13 July 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Meandering 1: In lieu of a Preface Introduction: By way of Getting Started Meandering 2: Land Acknowledgement Chapter 1: The Transjective—A Posthumanist Material Feminist Ontology Meandering 3: Charlie and Me Chapter 2: Our Polyp-Being Meandering 4: Feeling/Being Out of Place Chapter 3: Affective Fabric and Collective Agency Meandering 5: Inoculation Chapter 4: Of Selves and Agents Meandering 6: Inosculation Meandering 7: 4am By the Train Tracks Chapter 5: Vulnerability Meandering 8: World in Turmoil Chapter 6: Manifold Toxicity Meandering 9: Cohabitating Chapter 7: Ethical Thriving References

Reviews

Drawing inspiration from non-human critters such as coral polyps and an insistent bee, Posthumanist Vulnerability explores what it means to be vulnerable and agentic - transjective - beings, and how they may teach humans ethical lessons in unlearning human exceptionalism. This is a truly wonderful book, full of new, affirmative posthumanist insight. * Nina Lykke, Poet and Professor of Gender Studies, Linkoeping University, Sweden, and Aarhus University, Denmark * Daigle's Posthumanist Vulnerability is a timely philosophical monograph, highlighting the affirmative potential of multispecies vulnerability amidst unprecedented times of more-than-human crises. Bringing together traditions as diverse as feminist materialist philosophy, phenomenology, Deleuzoguattarian thought, and affect theory, Daigle dethrones the human subject and convincingly pleas for the radical embracing of a shared posthumanist vulnerability. * Evelien Geerts, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, UK *

Author Information

Christine Daigle is Professor of Philosophy and Director, Posthumanism Research Institute at Brock University, Canada. She is the editor of the series Posthuman Practice (Bloomsbury).

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