Before Humanity

Posthumanism and Ancestrality
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-50244-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

Reihe: Critical Posthumanisms

Before Humanity takes up the question of the post- in the posthuman from the position of ancestrality. Speculating about who or what comes after the human inevitably throws us back to our very beginnings. The before in Before Humanity in this context takes on two meanings: 1) what happened before we apparently became human? – which translates into a critical reading of paleo-anthropology, as well as evolutionary narratives of hominization; 2) living through the end of a certain (humanist, anthropocentric) notion of humanity, what tasks lie before us? – which provokes a critical reading of the Anthropocene and current narratives of geologization.

In other words, Before Humanity investigates conceptualizations of humanity and asks whether we have ever been human and if not, what could, or maybe what should we have been?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herbrechter, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Stefan Herbrechter was a Reader in Cultural Theory at Coventry University and Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Heidelberg University. He has published widely on literature, culture and media. His Posthumanism – A Critical Analysis (2013 [2009]) is one of the founding texts of critical posthumanism. For more information see http://stefanherbrechter.com and http://criticalposthumanism.net/.