Palgrave handbook of critical posthumanism [electronic resource] / Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus, Manuela Rossini, Marija Grech, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Christopher John Müller, editors.
Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys and speculates on the ways in which the po...
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Contents
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Part I: Introduction
- 1 Critical Posthumanism: An Overview
- Introduction
- Critical Posthumanism: An Overview
- Conclusion
- References
- Part II: Posthumanism Across the Ages
- 2 Posthumanism and Deep Time
- Introduction
- Anthropocene: Worlds With and Without Us
- The Proliferation of Geostories and the Geologization of Posthumanism
- Ancestrality and the Humanities
- Extinction and Deep Ecology
- Cross-References
- References
- 3 Classical Posthumanism
- Introduction.
- Classical Literature and Posthumanism
- Becoming-Animal
- Becoming-Monster
- Becoming-Human
- Becoming-Machine and Object
- Classical Posthumanism and the Cognitive Prosthetic Turn
- Logos, Pharmacological Interventions, and the Technical Construction of Human Fate
- Conclusion
- Cross-References
- References
- 4 Early Modern Posthumanism
- Introduction
- Actaeon Ego Sum
- Losing Face
- Who Left the Dogs Out?
- Watery Matters
- Conclusion: Places We Havent́ Been
- Cross-References
- Notes
- Works Cited
- 5 Medieval Posthumanism
- Introduction
- The Posthuman Beowulf.
- Monstrous Natures
- The Medieval HumAnimal
- Monstrosity, Disability, and the Future of Medieval Posthumanism
- Conclusion
- Cross-References
- References
- 6 Posthumanism and the Enlightenment
- Introduction
- Humanism
- Embodiment
- Aesthetic and Environmental Awareness
- Beyond the Enlightenment Subject
- Enlightenment Materialisms
- Outlook
- Cross-References
- References
- 7 Romanticism and Critical Posthumanism
- Introduction
- Toward a Romantic Critical Posthumanism
- Romantic Critical Posthumanist Scholarship.
- How Did We Get Here? Romanticism Then, to Our Posthumanist Now
- Two Strains of Critical Posthumanist Romantic Scholarship
- Posthumanist Readings: Three Romantic Case Studies
- Frankenstein
- ̀̀Mont Blanc ́́
- ̀̀To Autumn ́́
- From the Nuts and Bolts of the Romantic Cyborg
- German Romanticism
- American Romanticism
- Room for Future Work
- Cross-References
- References
- 8 Victorian Posthumanism
- Introduction
- Critical Posthumanism in the Victorian Era
- Posthumanism in Victorian Scholarship
- Posthumanist Darwin
- Dinosaurs and the Victorian Museum.
- Human-Machine Assemblages in Factory Fiction
- Conclusion
- Cross-References
- References
- 9 Modernism and Posthumanism
- Introduction
- Modernism, Modernity, and the Posthuman
- Feminist Aesthetics and Modernist Posthumanism
- Conclusion: Thinking with Modernist Posthumanism
- Cross-References
- References
- 10 Postmodernism and Posthumanism
- Introduction
- Cross-References
- References
- 11 Posthumanism and Speculative Fiction
- Introduction
- Early SF Into Transhumanism
- Posthumanist Theory Through SF
- Sf as Posthuman Theory
- Cross-References
- References.