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Beyond Human: From Animality to Transhumanism
C (Ed) Et Al Molloy
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Paperback. Explores the implications of our animal origins and posthuman futures for our understanding of our humanity and our relations with other species. This title investigates what it means to call ourselves human beings in relation to both our distant past and our possible futures as a species. Editor(s): Molloy, Dr. Claire; Shakespeare, Steven; Blake, Charlie. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 bw illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390. From Animality to Transhumanism. 224 pages, 10 bw illustrations. Editor(s): Molloy, Dr. Claire; Shakespeare, Steven; Blake, Charlie. Explores the implications of our animal origins and posthuman futures for our understanding of our humanity and our relations with other species. This title investigates what it means to call ourselves human beings in relation to both our distant past and our possible futures as a species. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: HPQ. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 16. Weight: 390.
This title explores the implications of our animal origins and posthuman futures for our understanding of our humanity and our relations with other species. "Beyond Human" investigates what it means to call ourselves human beings in relation to both our distant past and our possible futures as a species, and the questions this might raise for our relationship with the myriad species with which we share the planet. Drawing on insights from zoology, theology, cultural studies and aesthetics, an international line-up of contributors explore such topics as our origins as reflected in early cave art in the upper Palaeolithic through ... Read more
This title explores the implications of our animal origins and posthuman futures for our understanding of our humanity and our relations with other species. "Beyond Human" investigates what it means to call ourselves human beings in relation to both our distant past and our possible futures as a species, and the questions this might raise for our relationship with the myriad species with which we share the planet. Drawing on insights from zoology, theology, cultural studies and aesthetics, an international line-up of contributors explore such topics as our origins as reflected in early cave art in the upper Palaeolithic through ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441150110
SKU
V9781441150110
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Ref
99-10
About C (Ed) Et Al Molloy
Claire Molloy is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Media at University of Brighton, UK and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She has published on anthropomorphism, representations of animals in videogames and literature and dangerous dogs, media and risk. She is the author of Memento (EUP 2010) and Popular Media and Animal Ethics (Palgrave ... Read more
Reviews for Beyond Human: From Animality to Transhumanism
This fascinating collection of essays is often challenging and always engaging.Drawing on an astonishing breadth of approaches this book offers a stimulating exploration of what it means to be both embodied human and animal in an increasingly post-human world. From the opening chapter with its provocative idea of handing animals tools for their own, ... Read more