0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R2,500 - R5,000 (1)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 1 of 1 matches in All Departments

Human, All Too (Post)Human - The Humanities after Humanism (Hardcover): Jennifer Cotter, Kimberly Defazio, Robert Faivre,... Human, All Too (Post)Human - The Humanities after Humanism (Hardcover)
Jennifer Cotter, Kimberly Defazio, Robert Faivre, Amrohini Sahay, Julie P Torrant, …
R3,184 Discovery Miles 31 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
The Holocaust and Memory - The…
Barbara Engel King-Boni Hardcover R2,553 Discovery Miles 25 530
Waiting for Jerusalem - Surviving the…
I.C. Butnaru Hardcover R2,546 Discovery Miles 25 460
A Perfect Storm - Antisemitism In South…
Milton Shain Paperback R570 Discovery Miles 5 700
Choice of the Jews under Vichy, The…
Adam Rayski Hardcover R3,992 Discovery Miles 39 920
Made to Order - The Designing of Animals
Margaret E. Derry Hardcover R1,633 Discovery Miles 16 330
The Jews of Hungary - History, Culture…
Patai Hardcover R1,808 Discovery Miles 18 080
Equine Genetic Diseases, An Issue of…
Carrie Finno Hardcover R1,941 Discovery Miles 19 410
Collect and Record! - Jewish Holocaust…
Laura Jockusch Hardcover R2,889 Discovery Miles 28 890
The Ethics of Animal Experimentation - A…
Donna Yarri Hardcover R2,364 Discovery Miles 23 640
The Perfect Puppy - Breed Selection and…
Benjamin L. Hart, Lynette Hart Paperback R2,950 Discovery Miles 29 500

 

Partners