Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism: Mind, Matter, and the Life Sciences after Kant (New Directions in German Studies)

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Synopsis
The literary and scientific renaissance that struck Germany around 1800 is usually taken to be the cradle of contemporary humanism. Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism shows how figures like Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe as well as scientists specializing in the emerging modern life and cognitive sciences not only established but also transgressed the boundaries of the “human.” This period so broadly painted as humanist by proponents and detractors alike also grappled with ways of challenging some of humanism's most cherished assumptions: the dualisms, for example, between freedom and nature, science and art, matter and spirit, mind and body, and thereby also between the human and the nonhuman. Posthumanism is older than we think, and the so-called “humanists” of the late Enlightenment have much to offer our contemporary re-thinking of the human.
Copyright:
2018

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
352 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781501335686
Related ISBNs:
9781501363023
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
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Copyrighted By:
Edgar Landgraf, Gabriel Trop, Leif Weatherby, and Contributors, 2
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Philosophy
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Edgar Landgraf
Edited by:
Gabriel Trop
Edited by:
Leif Weatherby

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