Philosophical posthumanism /

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Author / Creator:Ferrando, Francesca, author.
Imprint:London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Description:1 online resource ( 1 volume)
Language:English
Series:Theory
Theory (Bloomsbury (Firm))
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12940417
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ISBN:9781350059498
1350059498
9781350059504
1350059501
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 25, 2019).
Other form:Print version: Ferrando, Francesca. Philosophical posthumanism. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 9781350059504
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword:
  • The Posthuman As Exuberant Excess by Rosi Braidotti
  • Introduction:
  • From Humans to Posthumans
  • 1. Part 1
  • What is Philosophical Posthumanism?
  • 1. Premises
  • 2. From Postmodern to Posthuman
  • 3. Posthumanism and Its Others
  • 4. The Birth of Transhumanism
  • 5. Contemporary Transhumanism(s)
  • 6 The Roots of Transhumanism
  • 7 Transhumanism and Techno-Enchantment
  • 8. Posthumanist Technologies as Ways of Revealing
  • 9. Antihumanism and the Übermensch
  • 10. Philosophical Posthumanism
  • Interlude 1
  • Part 2
  • Of Which "Human" is the Posthuman a "Post"?
  • 11. The Power of the Hyphen
  • 12. Humanizing
  • 13. The Anthropological Machine
  • 14. Almost, Human
  • 15. Technologies of the Self as Posthumanist (Re)Sources
  • 16. The Epiphany of Becoming Human
  • 17. Where does the word "human" come from?
  • 18. Mammals or Homo sapiens?
  • Interlude 2
  • Part 3
  • Have We Always Been Posthuman?
  • 19. Post-Anthropocentrism in the Anthropocene
  • 20. Posthuman Life
  • a. Bios and Zoe
  • b. Animate / Inanimate
  • 21. Artificial Life
  • 22. Evolving Species
  • 23. Posthumanities
  • 24. Posthuman Bioethics
  • 25. Human Enhancement
  • 26. Cognitive Autopoiesis
  • 27. Posthumanist Perspectivism
  • 28. From New Materialisms to Object Oriented Ontology
  • 29. Philosophical Posthumanist Ontology
  • 30. The Multiverse
  • a. The Multiverse in Science
  • b. The Multiverse in Philosophy
  • c. A Thought Experiment: The Posthuman Multiverse.