A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities
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Beschreibung
This companion is a cutting-edge primer to critical forms of the posthumanities and the feminist posthumanities, aimed at students and researchers who want to catch up with the recent theoretical developments in various fields in the humanities, such as new media studies, gender studies, cultural studies, science and technology studies, human animal studies, postcolonial critique, philosophy and environmental humanities. It contains a collection of nineteen new and original short chapters introducing influential concepts, ideas and approaches that have shaped and developed new materialism, inhuman theory, critical posthumanism, feminist materialism, and posthuman philosophy. A resource for students and teachers, this comprehensive volume brings together established international scholars and emerging theorists, for timely and astute definitions of a moving target – posthuman humanities and feminist posthumanities.
This companion is a cutting-edge primer to critical forms of the posthumanities and the feminist posthumanities, aimed at students and researchers who want to catch up with the recent theoretical developments in various fields in the humanities, such as new media studies, gender studies, cultural studies, science and technology studies, human animal studies, postcolonial critique, philosophy and environmental humanities. It contains a collection of nineteen new and original short chapters introducing influential concepts, ideas and approaches that have shaped and developed new materialism, inhuman theory, critical posthumanism, feminist materialism, and posthuman philosophy. A resource for students and teachers, this comprehensive volume brings together established international scholars and emerging theorists, for timely and astute definitions of a moving target – posthuman humanities and feminist posthumanities.
First comprehensive volume on feminist posthumanities, which covers new materialist forays in posthuman and more-than-human humanities Provides a long overdue and indespensible collection of original works by distinguished and emerging scholars on the challenges from posthumanism that the humanties currently face and how to respond to these Brings together top international theorists and emerging scholars in fields varying from feminist philosophy to digital -, medical – and environmental humanities
Autor*in
Cecilia Åsberg
Themen in »A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities«
Environmental humanities biomolecular archeology post-structuralisms posthuman subjects and methods posthumanism trans-corporeal posthumanism