Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231172158)

Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent "turns" toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Questioning the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, the essays in this volume examine the boundaries and significance of the human and the humanities in the wake of various redefinitions of what counts as life. They explore the possibility of theorizing life without assuming it to be either a simple substrate or an always-mediated effect of culture and difference. Posthumous Life provides new ways of thinking about animals, plants, humans, difference, sexuality, race, gender, identity, the earth, and the future.

Author: Jami Weinstein
ISBN-10: 023117215X
ISBN-13: 9780231172158
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2017
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2017