Solidarities with the Non/Human, or, Posthumanism in Literature: Collected Essays on Critical Posthumanism, Volume 2
Nov 2024 · BRILL
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This volume collects essays written over the last decade by one of the founders and leading figures of the theoretical movement of critical posthumanism. The readings of literary texts gathered here, from Shakespeare, Keats, Camus, Vittorini, Kundera, Haushofer, Atwood, Eagleman, Crace and DeLillo, focus on ‘posthumanist moments’ in which questions of postanthropocentrism and the nonhuman become prominent, are negotiated and ultimately foreclosed. They show how a deconstructively-minded way of reading humanistically-motivated texts can help making these texts relevant for our so-called ‘posthuman times’. In doing so, these critical posthumanist readings demonstrate that literature remains one of the privileged cultural institutions and practices from which solidarities both with and between the human and nonhuman can be formed and negotiated.
This volume collects essays written over the last decade by one of the founders and leading figures of the theoretical movement of critical posthumanism. The readings of literary texts gathered here, from Shakespeare, Keats, Camus, Vittorini, Kundera, Haushofer, Atwood, Eagleman, Crace and DeLill...
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Stefan Herbrechter held academic positions at the Universität Heidelberg, Germany, Leedstrinity University and Coventry University, UK. He has published widely on English and comparative literature, cultural theory and media studies and is the author of Posthumanism – A Critical Analysis (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Before Humanity (Brill, 2021), as well as the editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism (Springer, 2022), director of the Critical Posthumanism Network (http://criticalposthumanism.net/) and general editor of the Critical Posthumanisms series (https://brill.com/view/serial/CPH). For more detailed information please go to stefanherbrechter.com
Stefan Herbrechter held academic positions at the Universität Heidelberg, Germany, Leedstrinity University and Coventry University, UK. He has published widely on English and comparative literature, cultural theory and media studies and is the author of Posthumanism – A Critical Analysis (Bloomsb...
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