Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism - Mind, Matter, and the Life Sciences after Kant (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New Directions in German Studies
Release date:	April 2020
Editors:	Edgar Landgraf • Gabriel Trop • Leif Weatherby
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-1-5013-6302-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800 Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800 Promotions
LSN:	1-5013-6302-6
Barcode:	9781501363023

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