Florence Hulak et Charles Girard (dir.), Philosophie des sciences humaines: Concepts et problèmes, Paris, Vrin, 2011
In: Raisons politiques: études de pensée politique, Heft 56, S. 117-118
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In: Raisons politiques: études de pensée politique, Heft 56, S. 117-118
ISSN: 1291-1941
In: Advances in historical studies, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 1-1
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In: International politics: a journal of transnational issues and global problems, Band 50, Heft 2, S. 159-182
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In: International politics, Band 50, Heft 2, S. 159-182
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In: Politologický časopis, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 549-551
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In: Advances in historical studies, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 17-18
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In: Utopian studies, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 142-161
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Abstract
Novels and short stories written since the last decades of the nineteenth century and employing discourses of technology have contributed to shaping the idea of the "posthuman condition" in the West to such a degree that some critics already feel entitled to announce the Age of the Posthuman. This essay interrogates some of the embarrassingly quixotic proposals of posthumanism, taking H. G. Wells's Time Machine (1895), William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984), and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake (2004) as paradigmatic texts exploring patterns of mutation, virtuality, and bioengineering. In their concern for the apocalyptic and their sometime depiction of the glorious moment of Herculean victory over classical "human" man (or the "liberal subject"), these novels articulate the Western self's undaunted desire for the perfect Other, implying critical and even ironic gestures that question the propagation of a "new" human condition or the idea of absolute boundaries of the human.
In: LUP dissertations