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The Posthuman Nineteenth Century: Composing the Human in Time

The Posthuman Nineteenth Century: Composing the Human in Time

Barrell, Callum
Raimondi, Sara

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 1801360847
ISBN13: 9781801360845
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: Jun 6 2028
Pages: 150
Language: English

Originally traces, and reflects critically on, nineteenth-century British debates about evolutionary becoming, anthropocentrism, and scales of historical time. These subversive humanisms lend new, and much needed, historical perspective to our contemporary posthuman predicament.

Our unprecedented times go by various names--posthuman, post-postmodern, the Anthropocene--each of which breaks decisively with the alleged stupidities of the nineteenth century and its dreams of human mastery and progress. In response, this book excavates from nineteenth-century British thought various subversive humanisms that complicate the intellectual genealogy of critical posthumanism without losing sight of historical context. Using new and neglected sources, it brings together well-known figures such as the liberal utilitarian John Stuart Mill and the positivist Henry Buckle, as well as lesser-known philosophers, scientists, and poets, including Constance Naden, Julia Wedgwood, May Kendall, Henry Stephens Salt, and Edward Carpenter. In different ways, these thinkers subverted from within the ontological, epistemological, historical premises of nineteenth-century humanism. Their reflections on evolutionary becoming, scales of historical time, anthropocentrism, statistics, subject-object boundaries, and humanity's relationship to the natural environment demonstrate the ways in which thinking about time ontologically constituted the human--a question that is central to today's posthuman predicament.

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