{"product_id":"posthumanism-hardback-9780745662404","title":"Posthumanism (Hardback) 9780745662404","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePosthumanism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePramod K. Nayar (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745662404, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 October 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.8 x 1.9 cm, 0.408 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Nayar has produced a clear and comprehensive survey and analysis of contemporary posthuman thought. He avoids the excessive reliance on jargon that often mars writing on this topic, and treats the competing views he discusses with an even and incisive hand.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Pepperell, Cardiff School of Art \u0026amp; Design\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Posthumanism is a coming-of-age book for studies of science, technology, and culture. It brings together the most crucial considerations of current debates about the status of the posthuman and, in so doing, beautifully weaves together their political history and current relevance when thinking through this complex terrain.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndy Miah, University of the West of Scotland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Nayar proves an effective and expert guide to critical posthumanist perspectives on such topics as gender relations, post-colonialism and disability. […] The final chapter enters a plea for a 'species cosmopolitanism' in which humans abandon their efforts to identify non-humans in opposition to and subjection to humans but learn to respect the multiple affiliations with non-human entities such as technologies and non-human life forms.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Nayar concludes his exploration of the posthuman by stating that '[o]nce we accept that we \u003ci\u003eare\u003c\/i\u003e difference, perhaps we will cease to be worried about difference as \u003ci\u003eOther\u003c\/i\u003e' (p. 156). This statement draws to a close his wide ranging study of critical posthumanism and sounds a positive note for those who might fear difference without recognising the fact that, in the twenty-first century, we are all, in effect, Other.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJournal of Gender Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Nayar first maps the political and philosophical critiques of traditional humanism, revealing its exclusionary and ‘speciesist’ politics that position the human as a distinctive and dominant life form. He then contextualizes the posthumanist vision which, drawing upon biomedical, engineering and techno-scientific studies, concludes that human consciousness is shaped by its co-evolution with other life forms, and our human form inescapably influenced by tools and technology. Finally the book explores posthumanism’s roots in disability studies, animal studies and bioethics to underscore the constructed nature of ‘normalcy’ in bodies, and the singularity of species and life itself. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As this book powerfully demonstrates, posthumanism marks a radical reassessment of the human as constituted by symbiosis, assimilation, difference and dependence upon and with other species. Mapping the terrain of these far-reaching debates, \u003ci\u003ePosthumanism\u003c\/i\u003e will be an invaluable companion to students of cultural studies and modern and contemporary literature.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e 1. Revisiting the Human: Critical Humanisms\u003cbr\u003e Terms and Definitions\u003cbr\u003e Critical Humanisms and the Origins of Posthumanism\u003cbr\u003e 2. Consciousness, Biology and the Necessity of Alterity\u003cbr\u003e Cognition, Consciousness and Autopoiesis\u003cbr\u003e Biology, Systems and Systems Biology\u003cbr\u003e Dealing with\/in Alterity\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Body, Reformatted\u003cbr\u003e Biomedia, the Body Mathematized and Postvital Life\u003cbr\u003e Other\/ing Bodies\u003cbr\u003e The Body as Congeries, Assemblage and Interface\u003cbr\u003e 4. Absolute Monstrosities: The ‘Question of the Animal’\u003cbr\u003e Monster Theory: Cultures of Otherness\u003cbr\u003e Animal Nature, Human Nature\u003cbr\u003e The Humanimal\u003cbr\u003e Speciesism\u003cbr\u003e 5. Life Itself: The View from Disability Studies and Bioethics\u003cbr\u003e Disability Studies and the Norms of the ‘Human’\u003cbr\u003e Bioethics and Personhood\u003cbr\u003e 6. Posthuman Visions: Toward Companion Species\u003cbr\u003e Posthuman Biology\u003cbr\u003e Posthumanist Biology\u003cbr\u003e Companion Species\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Posthumanism as Species Cosmopolitanism\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Language: reference \u0026amp; general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Language: reference \u0026amp; general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Language:%20reference%20\u0026amp;%20general%20%5BCB%5D%22\"\u003eCB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407328407832,"sku":"9780745662404","price":45.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745662404.jpg?v=1784162512","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/posthumanism-hardback-9780745662404","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}