{"product_id":"the-embarrassment-of-being-human-benjamin-boysen-9781032812298","title":"The Embarrassment of Being Human: A Critical Essay on the New Materialisms and Modernity in an Age of Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith the message that everything in a sense is alive, thus allowing us to join forces with new politico-ethical communities stretching across human and nonhuman realms, the new materialisms have captivated the minds of many academics, artists, and intellectuals by stressing that it is time to return to a premodern mindset and discard modernity and its concepts of secularization, autonomy, and finitude.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Embarrassment of Being Human\u003c\/i\u003e not only demonstrates how these magical materialisms are beset by grave theoretical and practical inconsistencies and self-contradictions. It also demonstrates how their demand for humans to step down and allow for an emancipation of things qualifies the new materialisms as a metaphysics of neoliberalism that reproduces and fortifies the self-contradictions rampant in the current neoliberal hegemony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile helping us to gain a comprehensive understanding of the tenets of the eerie ills of our epoch, the critique of the new materialisms can furthermore inspire us to appreciate how the exact inversion of the new materialist complex amounts to a revitalization of the modern project. A revitalization that is critical to think our epoch differently.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Boysen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 103281229X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032812298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/24\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d","brand":"Benjamin Boysen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46867202277631,"sku":"9781032812298","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_877e63ef-9482-4d5f-9cf1-99123705c6ca.jpg?v=1747454160","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-embarrassment-of-being-human-benjamin-boysen-9781032812298","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}