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" Posthumanism in the age of humanism : "
edited by Edgar Landgraf, Gabriel Trop, and Leif Weatherby.
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852179
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Posthumanism in the age of humanism : : mind, matter, and the life sciences after Kant /\ edited by Edgar Landgraf, Gabriel Trop, and Leif Weatherby.
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New York, NY, USA ;London, UK :: Bloomsbury Academic,, 2019.
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, ©2019
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New directions in German studies ;; vol. 23
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1 online resource (xii, 337 pages)
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1501335685
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: 1501335693
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: 9781501335686
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1501335677
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9781501335679
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Posthumanism after Kant; PART I DISSECTING THE HUMAN BODY:EMBODIMENT, COGNITION, AND THE EARLY LIFE SCIENCES; 2 Vertiginous Systems of the Soul; 3 Brain Matters in the German Enlightenment: Animal Cognition and Species Difference in Herder, Soemmerring, and Gall; 4 Agency without Humans: Normativity and Path Dependence in the Nineteenth-Century Life Sciences; 5 Embodied Phantasy: Johannes Müller and the Nineteenth-Century Neurophysiological Foundations of Critical Posthumanism.
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13 In Defense of Humanism: Envisioning a Posthuman Future and Its Critique in Goethe's Faust; 14 Beyond Death: Posthuman Perspectives in Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland's Macrobiotics; 15 The Indifference of the Inorganic; Bibliography; Index.
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PART II WHO'S AFRAID OF IDEALISM? MATERIALISM, POSTHUMANISM, AND THE POST-KANTIAN LEGACY; 6 Kant and Posthumanism; 7 Intimations of the Posthuman: Kant's Natural Beauty; 8 Farewell to Ontology: Hegel after Humanism; 9 Steps to an Ecology of Geist: Hegel, Bateson, and the Spirit; 10 Protecting Natural Beauty from Humanism's Violence:The Healing Effects of Alexander von Humboldt's; PART III CYBORG ENLIGHTENMENT: BOUNDARIES OF THE (POST- )HUMAN AROUND 1800; 11 Posthumanist Thinking in the Work of Heinrich von Kleist; 12 Positing the Robotic Self: From Fichte to Ex Machina.
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The literary and scientific renaissance that struck Germany around 1800 is usually taken to be the cradle of contemporary humanism. Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism shows how figures like Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe as well as scientists specializing in the emerging modern life and cognitive sciences not only established but also transgressed the boundaries of the "human." This period so broadly painted as humanist by proponents and detractors alike also grappled with ways of challenging some of humanism's most cherished assumptions: the dualisms, for example, between freedom and nature, science and art, matter and spirit, mind and body, and thereby also between the human and the nonhuman. Posthumanism is older than we think, and the so-called "humanists" of the late Enlightenment have much to offer our contemporary re-thinking of the human.
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Humanism.
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Humanism.
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Literary essays.
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Literary theory.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Movements-- Humanism.
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Western philosophy: Enlightenment.
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144
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B821
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Landgraf, Edgar,1967-
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Trop, Gabriel
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Weatherby, Leif
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