Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism: Mind, Matter, and the Life Sciences After Kant by Landgraf, Edgar

Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism: Mind, Matter, and the Life Sciences after Kant (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501363023)

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Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism: Mind, Matter, and the Life Sciences After Kant by Landgraf, Edgar

Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism: Mind, Matter, and the Life Sciences after Kant

$44.95
Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism: Mind, Matter, and the Life Sciences After Kant by Landgraf, Edgar

Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism: Mind, Matter, and the Life Sciences after Kant

$44.95
Format: Paperback
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The literary and scientific renaissance that struck Germany around 1800 is usually taken to be the cradle of contemporary humanism. Posthumanism in the Age of Humanismshows how figures like Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe as well as scientists specializing in the emerging modern life and cognitive sciences not only established but also transgressed the boundaries of the "human."

This period so broadly painted as humanist by proponents and detractors alike also grappled with ways of challenging some of humanism's most cherished assumptions: the dualisms, for example, between freedom and nature, science and art, matter and spirit, mind and body, and thereby also between the human and the nonhuman. Posthumanism is older than we think, and the so-called "humanists" of the late Enlightenment have much to offer our contemporary re-thinking of the human.

Author: Edgar Landgraf
ISBN-10: 1501363026
ISBN-13: 9781501363023
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2020
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.73d
By Edgar Landgraf
By Edgar Landgraf
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Edgar Landgraf is Professor of German at Bowling Green State University, USA. He is the author of Improvisation as Art: Conceptual Challenges, Historical Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2011).

Gabriel Trop is Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He is the author of Poetry as a Way of Life: Aesthetics and Askesis in the German Eighteenth Century (2015).

Leif Weatherby is Assistant Professor of German at New York University, USA. He is the author of Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx (2016).

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