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Posthumanism / edited by Neil Badmington.

Title
Posthumanism / edited by Neil Badmington.
Publication
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2000.

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Additional Authors
Badmington, Neil, 1971-
Description
xiii, 172 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
This reader offers an introduction to the ways in which humanism's belief in the natural supremacy of the family of man has been called into question at different moments and from different theoretical positions.
Series Statement
Readers in cultural criticism
Uniform Title
Readers in cultural criticism
Subject
  • Philosophical anthropology
  • Human body (Philosophy)
  • Humanism
  • Anthropologie philosophique
  • Corps humain (Philosophie)
  • Humanisme
  • Filosofische antropologie
  • Postmodernisme
  • Technologie
  • Philosophie de l'homme
  • Corps (philosophie)
  • Humanisme
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-167) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : Approaching posthumanism / Neil Badmington -- The great family of man / Roland Barthes -- The instinct / Rosalind Coward -- The wretched of the earth / Frantz Fanon -- The order of things : an archaeology of the human sciences / Michel Foucault -- Marxism and humanism / Louis Althusser -- Prophylaxis and virulence / Jean Baudrillard -- Soft fictions and intimate documents : can feminism be posthuman? / Paula Rabinowitz -- Skinflick : posthuman gender in Jonathan Demme's The silence of the lambs / Judith Halberstam -- A cyborg manifesto : science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century / Donna J. Haraway -- Posthumanist (com)promises : diffracting Donna Haraway's cyborg through Marge Piercy's Body of glass / Neil Badmington -- Postcards from the posthuman solar system / Scott Bukatman -- Pagans, perverts or primitives? Experimental justice in the empire of capital / Bill Readings -- Can thought go on without a body? / Jean-François Lyotard.
ISBN
  • 0333765370
  • 9780333765371
  • 0333765389
  • 9780333765388
  • 0312237936
  • 9780312237936
  • 0312237944
  • 9780312237943
LCCN
^^^00033320^
OCLC
  • 44045601
  • SCSB-10639042
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library