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Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism

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  • © 2022

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Editors:
  1. Stefan Herbrechter

    1. Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

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  2. Ivan Callus

    1. Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

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  3. Manuela Rossini

    1. Basel, Switzerland

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  4. Marija Grech

    1. University of Malta, Msida, Malta

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  5. Megen de Bruin-Molé

    1. University of Southampton, Winchester, UK

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  6. Christopher John Müller

    1. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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  • Presents a comprehensive view of the genealogy of posthumanism
  • Draws on important strands and issues on the discourse of posthumanism
  • Highlights the shift that the study of posthumanism has had in the relationship between the humanities

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Table of contents (54 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Critical Posthumanism: An Overview

      • Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Marija Grech, Christopher John Müller, Manuela Rossini
      Pages 3-26

  3. Posthumanism Across the Ages

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Posthumanism and Deep Time

      • Stefan Herbrechter
      Pages 29-54

    3. Classical Posthumanism

      • Giulia Maria Chesi
      Pages 55-74

    4. Early Modern Posthumanism

      • Karen Raber
      Pages 75-99

    5. Medieval Posthumanism

      • Alan S. Montroso
      Pages 101-122

    6. Posthumanism and the Enlightenment

      • Edgar Landgraf
      Pages 123-143

    7. Romanticism and Critical Posthumanism

      • Elizabeth Effinger
      Pages 145-165

    8. Victorian Posthumanism

      • Wietske Smeele
      Pages 167-186

    9. Modernism and Posthumanism

      • Peter Adkins
      Pages 187-208

    10. Postmodernism and Posthumanism

      • Jonathan Boulter
      Pages 209-224

    11. Posthumanism and Speculative Fiction

      • Sherryl Vint
      Pages 225-246

  4. Technologies and Figurations of the Posthuman

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247
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    2. The Monstrous and Critical Posthumanism

      • Donna McCormack
      Pages 249-274

    3. Critical Posthumanism and the Uncanny in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me

      • Pramod K. Nayar
      Pages 275-294

    4. Colonial Humanism, Alter-humanism and Ex-colonialism

      • Simone Bignall
      Pages 295-316

    5. Cute, Otaku, and Posthuman Aesthetics

      • Charlie Gere
      Pages 317-335

    6. Aesthetics, Autopoiesis, and Posthumanism

      • Carsten Strathausen
      Pages 337-359
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About this book

Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys and speculates on the ways in which the posthumanist paradigm emerged, transformed, and might further develop across the humanities. With its focus on the posthuman as a figure, on posthumanism as a social discourse, and on posthumanisation as an on-going historical and ontological process, the volume highlights the relationship between the humanities and sciences. The essays engage with posthumanism in connection with subfields like the environmental humanities, health humanities, animal studies, and disability studies. The book also traces the historical representations and understanding of posthumanism across time. Additionally, the contributions address genre and forms such as autobiography, games, art, film, museums, andtopics such as climate change, speciesism, anthropocentrism, and biopolitics to name a few. This handbook considers posthumanism’s impact across disciplines and areas of study. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

    Stefan Herbrechter

  • Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

    Ivan Callus

  • Basel, Switzerland

    Manuela Rossini

  • University of Malta, Msida, Malta

    Marija Grech

  • University of Southampton, Winchester, UK

    Megen de Bruin-Molé

  • Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

    Christopher John Müller

About the editors

Stefan Herbrechter is a writer and research fellow at Coventry University and Privatdozent at Heidelberg University.

Ivan Callus is Professor of English at the University of Malta.

Manuela Rossini works as a research manager in the central administration of the University of Basel and is associated to its English Department as Executive Director of the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSAeu).

Marija Grech is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Department of English at the University of Malta and a Visiting Fellow of the School of Humanities & Languages at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Megen de Bruin-Molé (University of Southampton) is a scholar and university lecturer working in the UK.

Christopher John Müller is a lecturer in Cultural Studies & Media at Macquarie University, Sydney and an Honorary Research Associate in Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University.

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