Inhuman Reflections: Rethinking the Limits of the Human - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719053374 ISBN 13: 9780719053375

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2000

Synopsis

This book asks what it is to be human as we enter into the millennium. Specters, cyborgs, clones, and aliens—contemporary representations of the inhuman hybrid—seem more various, multiform, and pressing than ever. Increasingly, the blurred distinction between human and inhuman and the attendant technization of social life raises a series of opportunities for cultural analysis. In the process of mapping a cultural genealogy that stretches from Romanticism to Neuromancer, this volume examines the impact of science and technology on culture and representation--past, present and future--and resituates the inhuman as a significant contemporary conceptual motif as it resonates across and within the philosophical trajectory of modernity.

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About the Author

Scott Brewster is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Central Lancashire.

John J. Joughin is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Central Lancashire.

David Owen is Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy and Assistant Director of the Center for Post-Analytic Philosophy at the University of Southampton.

Richard J. Walker is Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719053374
• ISBN 13: 9780719053375
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Brewster Scott, Joughin John J., Owen David, Walker Richard J.