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Human, All Too (Post)Human - The Humanities after Humanism (Hardcover)
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Human, All Too (Post)Human - The Humanities after Humanism (Hardcover)
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The contemporary has marked itself off from modernity by
questioning its humanism that centers the world around the human as
the moral subject of free will and self-determination, the bearer
of universal essence that is the basis of human rights. Modernism
normalizes humanism through language as referential, a set of
interrelated signs that correspond to the empirical reality outside
it. Humanist modernity, in other words, is seen in the contemporary
as a regime that, by separating the human from the non-human and
insisting on language as correspondence, not only fails to engage
the emerging forms of social relations in which the boundaries of
human and machine are fading but is also indifferent to the
difference between the "other"'s life and other lives. Human, All
Too (Post)Human: The Humanities after Humanism argues that the
Nietzschean tendencies that provide the philosophical boundaries of
post-humanism do not undo humanism but reform it, constructing a
parallel discourse that saves humanism from itself. Grounded in
materialist analysis of social life, Human, All Too (Post)Human
argues that humanism and post-humanism are cultural discourses that
normalize different stages of capitalism-analog and digital
capitalism. They are different orders of property relations. The
question, the writers argue, is not humanism or post-humanism,
namely cultural representations, but the material relations of
production that are centered on wage labor. Language, free will, or
human rights are not the issues since "Right can never be higher
than the economic structure of society and its cultural development
conditioned thereby." The question that shapes all questions, in
Human, All Too (Post)Human is freedom from (wage) labor.
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