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The Animate World: Posthuman Ontologies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781538169773)
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xThe Animate World: Posthuman Ontologies argues for the necessity of a post-humanism grounded in a vital ontology, in contrast to the nihilist ontological positions and assumptions of a range of existing post and anti-humanisms.
Still, the book affirms both the normative imperative and technological tendency that humanism is unsustainable and that technological developments are cumulatively pointing towards a surpassing of the human, conceptually and physically. Based in process philosophy, the post-human ontology is offered as an alternative philosophical grounding for post-humanism for an ethics and politics of ecological flourishing rather than exploitation of nature. Sean Watson critiques the existing nihilist ontological approaches to the post-human, which he argues are complicit with neoliberal, digital capitalism and its ideological justifications. In doing so, he conceives of an ontology of generative ethics and politics, capable of addressing the overwhelming accumulation of crises that Bernard Stiegler identified as the destruction of the future.Author: Sean Watson
ISBN-10: 1538169770
ISBN-13: 9781538169773
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 01/22/2026
Pages: 338
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
By Sean Watson
xSean Watson is Associate Head of the Department of Health and Social Science at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He has been an academic for over 30 years. He has taught, and occasionally published on, aspects of European philosophy, and metaphysics throughout that time. He lives on an old Scottish fishing boat.
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