(Un)Learning to Be Human? : Collected Essays on Critical Posthumanism, Volume 1 /

(Un)Learning to Be Human? : Collected Essays on Critical Posthumanism, Volume 1 /

Critical posthumanism is a theory paradigm that has become hugely influential across the humanities and social sciences in the last twenty years. This volume collects essays written over the last decade by one of the founders and leading figures of this movement. Originally a reaction to accelerated...

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Main Author: Herbrechter, Stefan (Author)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Critical Posthumanisms ; 6.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface: Returning to Critical Posthumanism
  • Image Credits
  • Introduction: Critical Posthumanism - Ten Years On
  • 1 Poststructuralism and the End(s) of Humanism
  • 1 Post-, Again
  • 2 Post-structural-ism
  • 3 Poststructuralism and Posthumanism
  • 2 Posthumanism, Subjectivity, Autobiography
  • 1 Post-human-ism
  • 2 The Death of the Subject and Autobiography
  • 3 Addressing the Posthumanist Subject
  • 4 Posthumanism and Autobiography
  • 5 Posthuman(ist) Life Writing
  • 6 Post-script: De-Facebook
  • 3 The Rhetoric of the Posthuman
  • 1 Rhetoric and Philosophical Anthropology
  • 2 The Rhetoric of the Posthuman - Disfigurations
  • 3 Postanthropocentric Rhetoric
  • 4 ps : A Note on Posthumanist Rhetoric and New Media
  • 4 (Un)ravelling
  • 1 Storying, or, Why Critical Posthumanism, Still
  • 2 Unlearning, or the Linguistic Return
  • 3 Reworlding, or Carrying the Other
  • 5 Posthumanist Education?
  • 1 The Posthumanisation of the Education System
  • 2 Posthumanism and Pedagogy
  • 3 Humanism as a Technology of Domestication
  • 4 Critical posthumanist education
  • 5 Conclusion
  • 6 (Un)learning to Be Human
  • 1 Posthumanism and Education
  • 2 Un-learning
  • 3 Addressing the Posthumanist Subject
  • 4 Animals in School - Zoomimesis and Rewilding
  • 7 Posthumanism 'without' Technology, or How the Media Made Us Post/Human: From Originary Technicity to Originary Mediality
  • 1 Posthumanism as Discourse
  • 2 Critical Posthumanism, or Posthumanism 'without' Technology
  • 3 Posthumanism and the Media, or from Originary Technicity to Originary Mediality
  • 4 Postscript: Posthumanism and the Future of the Humanities
  • 8 Postfiguration, or, the Desire of the Posthuman
  • 1 Posthumanism: Discourse and Figure
  • 2 Disfiguration, or, What Does Mimesis Hide?
  • 3 From Anthropomimesis to Zoomimesis
  • 4 After Mimesis: Postfiguration?
  • 5 Examples
  • 5.1 Camilla Adami - Primati/ Jacques Derrida - Tête-à-tête
  • 5.2 Tim Flach - More than Human
  • 5.3 The "Monkey Selfie"
  • 5.4 Daniel Lee - Manimals  (1993)
  • 9 Perfectibilities, or, How (Not) to Improve Humans
  • 1 Positionings
  • 2 Perfectibilities
  • 3 Future Perfect: Constructions of the (Human) Future
  • 4 Room for Improvement, or There Is Always Some
  • 5 Desire of the Posthuman, or Yearning for Perfection
  • 6 Could Do Better: Humanism without Humans or Humans without Humanism
  • 10 Making Humans Better: Posthumanism 'beyond' Violence
  • 1 What Is Wrong with Humanism? or, We Have to Get Better
  • 2 Critical Posthumanism between Post- and Trans-, or, Better Not...
  • 3 There's Something Wrong with Perfectibility, or: Get Better Soon!
  • 4 Posthumanistic Politics beyond Good and Evil, or, Let's Do the Correction Now!
  • 5 Unlearning Humanism and the Question of Justice, or, Better Does Not Necessarily Mean Good
  • 6 And Finally: Best Wishes... from the Terminator
  • Conclusion: Dehumanisation, or, Humanism without Humans
  • 1 Humans without, Not: Without Humans
  • 2 Dehumanisation
  • 3 Humanism without Humans, Humans without Humanism, Humanism without Humanism
  • Bibliography
  • Index.