Beyond Human
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Beyond Human

From Animality to Transhumanism

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Beyond Human

From Animality to Transhumanism

About this book

Beyond Human investigates what it means to call ourselves human beings in relation to both our distant past and our possible futures as a species, and the questions this might raise for our relationship with the myriad species with which we share the planet. Drawing on insights from zoology, theology, cultural studies and aesthetics, an international line-up of contributors explore such topics as our origins as reflected in early cave art in the upper Palaeolithic through to our prospects at the forefront of contemporary biotechnology. In the process, the book positions "the human" in readiness for what many have characterized as our transhuman or posthuman future. For if our status as rational animals or "animals that think" has traditionally distinguished us as apparently superior to other species, this distinction has become increasingly problematic. It has come to be seen as based on skills and technologies that do not distinguish us so much as position us as transitional animals. It is the direction and consequences of this transition that is the central concern of Beyond Human.

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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781441150110
eBook ISBN
9781441171245
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Literary Criticism Theory

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. Notes on Contributors
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. PART ONE: Animality: Boundaries and Definitions
  10. Chapter 1 Incidents in the Animal Revolution
  11. Chapter 2 Being a Known Animal1
  12. Chapter 3 Beyond the Pain Principle
  13. PART TWO: Representing Animality
  14. Chapter 4 What We Can Do: Art Methodologies and Parities in Meeting
  15. Chapter 5 Horse-Crazy Girls: Alternative Embodiments and Socialities
  16. Chapter 6 Writing Relations: The Crab, the Lobster, the Orchid, the Primrose, You, Me, Chaos and Literature1
  17. PART THREE: Thinking Beyond the Divide
  18. Chapter 7 Affective Animal: Bataille, Lascaux and the Mediatization of the Sacred1
  19. Chapter 8 Levinas, Bataille and the Theology of Animal Life
  20. Chapter 9 Degrees of ā€˜Freedomā€™: Humans as Primates in Dialogue with Hans Urs von Balthasar
  21. PART FOUR: Animalā€“Humanā€“Machineā€“God
  22. Chapter 10 Inhuman Geometry: Aurochs, Angels and the Refuge of Art
  23. Chapter 11 Articulating the Inhuman: God, Animal, Machine
  24. Chapter 12 Transforming the Human Body
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index