Nietzsche''s Posthumanism

"Nietzsche's Posthumanism explores the continuities and disagreements between Nietzsche's philosophy and contemporary posthumanism. Focusing specifically on Nietzsche's reception of the life sciences of his day and his reflections on technology, Edgar Landgraf provides both fresh readings of Nietzsche and a critique of post- and transhumanist philosophies"--

List of contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Posthumanism and Its Nietzsches
2. Posthumanist Epistemology
3. Insect Sociality
4. Instinct, Will, and the Will to Power
5. Media Technologies of Hominization
6. Cultivating the Sovereign Individual
7. The Ethics and Politics of Nietzschean Posthumanism
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Edgar Landgraf is distinguished research professor of German at Bowling Green State University. He is author of Improvisation as Art: Conceptual Challenges, Historical Perspectives and coeditor of Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism and Play in the Age of Goethe.

Product details

• Authors: Edgar Landgraf
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781517915339
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-1533-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Posthumanities
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology