Monkey Trouble - The Scandal of Posthumanism

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Peterson Klappentext Monkey Trouble explores the turn toward immanence in contemporary posthumanism, which aims to extend hospitality to animals, plants, and even insentient things. This book argues that the displacement of anthropocentrism must cultivate a human/nonhuman relationality that affirms the immanent transcendency spawned by our phantasmatic humanness. Zusammenfassung Monkey Trouble explores the turn toward immanence in contemporary posthumanism! which aims to extend hospitality to animals! plants! and even insentient things. This book argues that the displacement of anthropocentrism must cultivate a human/nonhuman relationality that affirms the immanent transcendency spawned by our phantasmatic humanness. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction (1) The Scandal of the Human: Immanent Transcendency and the Question of Animal Language (2) Sovereign Silence: The Desire for Answering Speech (3) The Gravity of Melancholia: A Critique of Speculative Realism (4) Listing Toward Cosmocracy: The Limits of Hospitality Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Christopher Peterson
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780823277797
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-7779-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Literature - Classics / Criticism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction