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"This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants. Nayar first maps the political and philosophical critiques of traditional humanism, revealing its exclusionary and 'speciesist' politics that position the human as a distinctive and dominant life form. He then contextualizes the posthumanist vision which, drawing upon biomedical, engineering and techno-scientific studies, concludes that human consciousness is shaped by its co-evolution with other life forms, and our human form inescapably influenced by tools and technology. Finally the book explores posthumanism's roots in disability studies, animal studies and bioethics to underscore the constructed nature of 'normalcy' in bodies, and the singularity of species and life itself. As this book powerfully demonstrates, posthumanism marks a radical reassessment of the human as constituted by symbiosis, assimilation, difference and dependence upon and with other species. Mapping the terrain of these far-reaching debates, Posthumanism will be an invaluable companion to students of cultural studies and modern and contemporary literature."--Page 4 of cover

This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants. Nayar first maps the political and philosophical critiques of traditional humanism, revealing its exclusionary and 'speciesist' politics that position the human as a distinctive and dominant life form. He then contextualizes the posthumanist vision which, drawing upon biomedical, engineering and techno-scientific studies, concludes that human consciousness is shaped by its co-evolution with other

"Nietzsche's Posthumanism explores the continuities and disagreements between Nietzsche's philosophy and contemporary posthumanism. Focusing specifically on Nietzsche's reception of the life sciences of his day and his reflections on technology, Edgar Landgraf provides both fresh readings of Nietzsche and a critique of post- and transhumanist philosophies"--

"Nietzsche's Posthumanism explores the continuities and disagreements between Nietzsche's philosophy and contemporary posthumanism. Focusing specifically on Nietzsche's reception of the life sciences of his day and his reflections on technology, Edgar Landgraf provides both fresh readings of Nietzsche and a critique of post- and transhumanist philosophies"--

Connecting Renaissance humanism to the variety of "critical posthumanisms" in twenty-first-century literary and cultural theory, Renaissance Posthumanism reconsiders traditional languages of humanism and the human, not by nostalgically enshrining or triumphantly superseding humanisms past but rather by revisiting and interrogating them. What if today's "critical posthumanisms," even as they distance themselves from the iconic representations of the Renaissance, are in fact moving ever closer to ideas in works from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century? What if "the human" is at once embedded and embodied in, evolving with, and de-centered amid a weird tangle of animals, environments, and vital materiality? Seeking those patterns of thought and practice, contributors to this collection focus on moments wherein Renaissance humanism looks retrospectively like an uncanny "contemporary"—and ally—of twenty-first-century critical posthumanism

Posthumanism and its core ideas have been spreading in different parts of the world and in various areas of human interest as a response to the multi-faceted problems human and more-than-human worlds are facing. In the spirit of addressing the burning questions of our times from diverse global and multi-disciplinary perspectives within the context of Posthumanism, we came together to start a new journal: Journal of Posthumanism (JoPH). As the field's first multidisciplinary and multilingual journal, the JoPH, aims to bring together conversations that go beyond Anglo-American academia, including marginalized ontologies, epistemologies, methodologies, and axiologies, as well as underrepresented disciplines, experiences, views, cultures, and histories. By marking global multiple chapters and discussions in the area, the JoPH promises to expand fresh and diverse understandings of posthumanisms. With the hope of continuing the dialogue on a global forum in solidarity with other journals, we invite all researchers, writers, artists, activists, and scholars from different disciplines to share their work with us.

Pothumanism refers to this line of thought which advocates the improvement of humans by technologies, based inter alia on the new convergence between nanotechnologies, biotechnology, computer sciences and cognitive sciences. The article looks at how our lifestyles fit with this movement of thought. ; Le posthumanisme désigne ce courant de pensée qui prône l'amélioration de l'humain par les technologies, sur la base notamment de la convergence nouvelles entre nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, sciences informatiques et sciences cognitives. L'article étudie la congruence de nos modes de vie avec ce mouvement de pensée.