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Additional authors

1. Badmington, Neil, 1971-

Description

1. xiii, 172 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

1. This reader offers an introduction to the ways in which humanism's belief in the natural supremacy of the family of man has been called into question at different moments and from different theoretical positions.

Series statement

1. Readers in cultural criticism

Uniform title

1. Readers in cultural criticism

Subject

1. Philosophical anthropology
2. Human body (Philosophy)
3. Humanism
4. Anthropologie philosophique
5. Corps humain (Philosophie)
6. Humanisme
7. Filosofische antropologie
8. Postmodernisme
9. Technologie
10. Philosophie de l'homme
11. Corps (philosophie)
12. Humanisme

Contents

1. Introduction : Approaching posthumanism / Neil Badmington -- The great family of man / Roland Barthes -- The instinct / Rosalind Coward -- The wretched of the earth / Frantz Fanon -- The order of things : an archaeology of the human sciences / Michel Foucault -- Marxism and humanism / Louis Althusser -- Prophylaxis and virulence / Jean Baudrillard -- Soft fictions and intimate documents : can feminism be posthuman? / Paula Rabinowitz -- Skinflick : posthuman gender in Jonathan Demme's The silence of the lambs / Judith Halberstam -- A cyborg manifesto : science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century / Donna J. Haraway -- Posthumanist (com)promises : diffracting Donna Haraway's cyborg through Marge Piercy's Body of glass / Neil Badmington -- Postcards from the posthuman solar system / Scott Bukatman -- Pagans, perverts or primitives? Experimental justice in the empire of capital / Bill Readings -- Can thought go on without a body? / Jean-François Lyotard.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-167) and index.

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