Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism : mind, matter, and the life sciences after Kant /: mind, matter, and the life sciences after Kant. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Edgar Landgraf, Gabriel Trop, and Leif Weatherby.
• Editors: Landgraf, Edgar, 1967-; Trop, Gabriel; Weatherby, Leif
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Posthumanism after KantEdgar Landgraf, Gabriel Trop, and Leif WeatherbyI) DISSECTING THE HUMAN BODY: EMBODIMENT, COGNITION, AND THE EARLY LIFE SCIENCES 2. Vertiginous Systems of the SoulJeffrey West Kirkwood, Binghamton University, USA3. Brain Matters in the German Enlightenment: Animal Cognition and Species Difference in Herder, Soemmerring, and GallPatrick Fortmann, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA4. Agency without Humans: Normativity and Path Dependence in the 19th-Century Life Sciences Christian J. Emden, Rice University, USA5. Embodied Phantasy: Johannes Müller and the 19th-Century Neurophysiological Foundations of Critical PosthumanismEdgar Landgraf, Bowling Green State University, USAII) WHO'S AFRAID OF IDEALISM? MATERIALISM, POSTHUMANISM, AND THE POST-KANTIAN LEGACY 6. Kant and PosthumanismCarsten Strathausen, University of Missouri, USA7. Intimations of the Posthuman: Kant's Natural BeautyPeter Gilgen, Cornell University, USA8. Farewell to Ontology: Hegel after HumanismLeif Weatherby, New York University, USA9. Steps to an Ecology of Geist: Hegel, Bateson, and the Spirit of PosthumanismJohn H. Smith, UC Irvine, USA10. Protecting Natural Beauty from Humanism's Violence: The Healing Effects of Alexander von Humboldt's NaturgemäldeElizabeth Millán, DePaul University, USAIII) CYBORG ENLIGHTENMENT: BOUNDARIES OF THE (POST)HUMAN AROUND 1800 11. Posthumanist Thinking in the Work of Heinrich von KleistTim Mehigan, University of Queensland, Australia12. Positing the Robotic Self: From Fichte to Ex MachinaAlex Hogue, Coastal Carolina University, USA13. In Defense of Humanism: Envisioning a Posthuman Future and Its Critique in Goethe's FaustChristian P. Weber, Florida State University, USA13. Beyond Death: Posthuman Perspectives in Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland's Macrobiotics Jocelyn Holland, California Institute of Technology, USA15. The Indifference of the InorganicGabriel Trop, University of North Carolina, USABibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 144; Western philosophy: Enlightenment; Humanism -- History -- 21st century; Philosophical anthropology; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism; Humanism; Philosophical anthropology; Literary theory; Philosophy -- Movements -- Humanism; Literary Criticism -- European -- German; Literary essays; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501335686; 1501335685
• Related ISBNs: 9781501335679; 1501335677
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 6, 2018).
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