The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism

As our ideas of the human have come under increasing challenging - from technological change, from medical advances, from the existential threat of climate crisis amongst many other things - the 'posthuman' has become an increasingly central topic in the Humanities. Bringing together leading scholars from across the world and a wide range of disciplines, this is the most comprehensive available survey of cutting edge contemporary scholarship on posthumanism in literature, culture and theory. explores:- Central critical concepts and approaches, including transhumanism, new materialism and the Anthropocene- Ethical perspectives on ecology, race, gender and disability- Technology, from data and artificial intelligence to medicine and genetics- A wide range of genres and forms, from literary and science fiction, through film, television and music, to comics, video games and social media

Product details

• Authors: Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Jacob Wamberg
• Assisted by: Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (Editor), Jacob Wamberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781350090477
• ISBN: 978-1-350-09047-7
• No. of pages: 472
• Dimensions: 176 mm x 248 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Literary theory