Wallace D.H. Lawrence, Science and the Posthuman

2005
ISBN: 978-0-230-28763-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, eBook

Why was D.H. Lawrence preoccupied with the enigma of the human as thinking matter? This first sustained study of Lawrence and science shows how 'posthuman' conceptions of a material kinship between humans, animals and machines can transform our understanding of Lawrence's work and of its complex relationship with scientific epistemologies. Through detailed readings of evolutionary philosophy, and of the 'new Bergsonism' of Deleuze and others, Wallace provides a radical reappraisal of Lawrence in terms of an 'antihumanist (or posthumanist) humanism' (Hardt and Negri).

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wallace, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: SCIENCE Thinking Matter Science, Ideology and the 'New' Writing Matter: Science, Language and Materialism PART II: THE POSTHUMAN Posthuman D.H. Lawrence? Animals Humans Machines Postscript: On Abstraction Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

JEFF WALLACE is Principal Lecturer in English at the University of Glamorgan, UK. His previous, co-edited books are Charles Darwin's Origin of Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays , Raymond Williams Now , and Gothic Modernisms . He is an editor of the journal Key Words and of the book series Texts in Culture .