Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman (Critical Life Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 023117215X ISBN 13: 9780231172158

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description:

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.

About the Author:

Claire Colebrook is professor of English at Penn State University.

Jami Weinstein is associate professor of gender studies at Linköping University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 023117215X
• ISBN 13: 9780231172158
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Weinstein Jami, Colebrook Claire