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Additional authors

1. Hornbuckle, Calley A.
2. Smith, Jadwiga
3. Smith, William S. (William Stallings)

Description

1. vii, 211 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

1. "This volume investigates the intersection of phenomenology and posthumanism by rethinking the human and nonhuman specifically with regard to boredom, isolation, loneliness, and solitude. By closely examining these concepts from phenomenological, philosophical, and literary perspectives, this diverse collection of essays offers insights into the human and nonhuman in the absence of the Other and within the postapocalyptic. Topics of interest include modalities of presence and absence with regard to body, time, beast, and things; the phenomenology of corporeity; ontopoiesis and the sublime; alienation, absurdity, and phenomenology of existence; memory, posthistoricity, posthuman nihilism, and posthumanity; speculative cosmology, cosmic holism, and consciousness; ecophenomenology; and the philosophy of the aesthetic. These essays parse and probe distinct aspects of the posthuman condition and what it means to exist in a posthuman world, thereby furthering the vast, rich scope of phenomenological research and study. This text appeals to students and researchers working in these topics and fields."--
2. "This volume investigates the intersection of phenomenology and posthumanism by rethinking the human and nonhuman specifically with regard to boredom, isolation, loneliness, and solitude. By closely examining these concepts from phenomenological, philosophical, and literary perspectives, this diverse collection of essays offers insights into the human and nonhuman in the absence of the Other and within the postapocalyptic. Topics of interest include modalities of presence and absence with regard to body, time, beast, and things; the phenomenology of corporeity; ontopoiesis and the sublime; alienation, absurdity, and phenomenology of existence; memory, posthistoricity, posthuman nihilism, and posthumanity; speculative cosmology, cosmic holism, and consciousness; ecophenomenology; and the philosophy of the aesthetic. These essays parse and probe distinct aspects of the posthuman condition and what it means to exist in a posthuman world, thereby furthering the vast, rich scope of phenomenological research and study. This text appeals to students and researchers working in these topics and fields."--

Series statement

1. Analecta Husserliana, 0167-7276 ; volume CXXV

Uniform title

1. Analecta Husserliana ; v. 125.

Subject

1. Phenomenology
2. Posthumanism

Contents

1. Part 1. Boredom, Temporality, Transhumanity. The Treatment of Boredom in Heidegger and Insomnia in Levinas -- Modulation to a New Key in The Syntax of Time: Peter Byrne Manchester and Anna-Teresa Tymienieckas Common Telos of the All -- From Boredom to a Posthumanist Fulfillment -- Experiencing Boredom: A Phenomenological Analysis -- Part 2. The Body/Technology/Ecology. Sloterdijk and Heidegger on the Question of Humanism -- The Growing Solitude of the Body -- Somatic Dissection and the Journey of Animal-being -- "Strange Kinship" : Romantic-era Women Writers and the Posthuman -- Part 3. Body, Culture and Society. The Distance of the Exotic: Bulloughs Idea of Psychical Distance from the Perspective of Levinass Concept of the Aesthetic -- Torture Acts: Inclusion and Exclusion in Katherine Dunns Geek Love -- Humor and Amusement Based on Incongruities: A Dialectical Approach -- Part 4. A Shrinking World. The Meaning of Solitude/Loneliness/Isolation in Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God -- Epistemic Ecology and Ben Okris "diminishing boundaries of a shrinking world" in "Heraclitus Golden River" from Wild (2012) -- Part 5. Narrative and Solitude. Death and the Absence of Others: A Narratological Investigation of Death and Solitude -- Part 6. Aesthetics and Ontology. An Apology for Abstraction in an Age of High Definition and Photo Realism in the Work of Kandinsky and The White Shaman Rock Art Panel and Related Rock Art Sites -- On Tragic Feeling and Human Weakness.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Terms of use (note)

1. Current Copyright Fee: GBP29.95