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Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Revisiting the Human: Critical Humanisms
Terms and Definitions
Critical Humanisms and the Origins of Posthumanism
2. Consciousness, Biology and the Necessity of Alterity
Cognition, Consciousness and Autopoiesis
Biology, Systems and Systems Biology
Dealing with/in Alterity
3. The Body, Reformatted
Biomedia, the Body Mathematized and Postvital Life
Other/ing Bodies
The Body as Congeries, Assemblage and Interface
4. Absolute Monstrosities: The ‘Question of the Animal’
Monster Theory: Cultures of Otherness
Animal Nature, Human Nature
The Humanimal
Speciesism
5. Life Itself: The View from Disability Studies and Bioethics
Disability Studies and the Norms of the ‘Human’
Bioethics and Personhood
6. Posthuman Visions: Toward Companion Species
Posthuman Biology
Posthumanist Biology
Companion Species
Conclusion: Posthumanism as Species Cosmopolitanism
Bibliography
Index
Pramod K. Nayar is a member of the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, India.
"Nayar has produced a clear and comprehensive survey and analysis
of contemporary posthuman thought. He avoids the excessive reliance
on jargon that often mars writing on this topic, and treats the
competing views he discusses with an even and incisive hand."
Robert Pepperell, Cardiff School of Art & Design
"Posthumanism is a coming-of-age book for studies of science,
technology, and culture. It brings together the most crucial
considerations of current debates about the status of the posthuman
and, in so doing, beautifully weaves together their political
history and current relevance when thinking through this complex
terrain."
Andy Miah, University of the West of Scotland
"Nayar proves an effective and expert guide to critical
posthumanist perspectives on such topics as gender relations,
post-colonialism and disability. […] The final chapter enters a
plea for a 'species cosmopolitanism' in which humans abandon their
efforts to identify non-humans in opposition to and subjection to
humans but learn to respect the multiple affiliations with
non-human entities such as technologies and non-human life
forms."
Philosophical Quarterly
"Nayar concludes his exploration of the posthuman by stating that
'[o]nce we accept that we are difference, perhaps we will
cease to be worried about difference as Other' (p. 156). This
statement draws to a close his wide ranging study of critical
posthumanism and sounds a positive note for those who might fear
difference without recognising the fact that, in the twenty-first
century, we are all, in effect, Other."
Journal of Gender Studies
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