{"product_id":"on-ceasing-to-be-human-gerald-bruns-9780804772099","title":"On Ceasing to Be Human","description":"The philosopher Stanley Cavell once asked, \"Can a human being be free of human nature?\" \u003ci\u003eOn Ceasing to Be Human\u003c\/i\u003e examines philosophical as well as literary texts and contexts, in which various senses of Cavell's question might be explored and developed. During the past thirty or so years, the very concept of \"being human\" has been called into question within such fields as cybernetics, animal-rights theory, analytic philosophy (neurophilosophy in particular). This book examines these issues, but its main concern is the link between freedom and nonidentity that Cavell's question implies, and which turns out to be a major concern among the thinkers Bruns takes up in this book: Maurice Blanchot, Emmanuel Levinas, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and F駘ix Guattari, and Jacques Derrida. Each of these is, in different ways, a philosopher of the \"singular\" for whom the singular cannot be reduced to concepts, categories, distinctions, or the rule of identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerald Bruns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804772096\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804772099\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2011 pg. 4","brand":"Gerald Bruns","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926230302975,"sku":"9780804772099","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c680a81b-a596-4de1-a4c0-a71f5b4644cf.jpg?v=1681081921","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-ceasing-to-be-human-gerald-bruns-9780804772099","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}