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Biocultural Creatures: Toward a New Theory of the Human
Samantha Frost
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Description for Biocultural Creatures: Toward a New Theory of the Human
Hardback. In Biocultural Creatures Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to create a new theory of the human that explains the mutual constitution of the body, environment, biology, and habitat, while offering new resources for responding to political and environmental crises. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging the idea of human exceptionalism as well as other theories of subjectivity that rest on a distinction between biology and culture, Frost proposes that humans are biocultural creatures who quite literally are cultured within the material, social, and symbolic worlds they inhabit. Through discussions about carbon, the functions of cell membranes, the activity of genes and proteins, the work of oxygen, and the passage of time, Frost recasts questions about the nature of ... Read more
In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging the idea of human exceptionalism as well as other theories of subjectivity that rest on a distinction between biology and culture, Frost proposes that humans are biocultural creatures who quite literally are cultured within the material, social, and symbolic worlds they inhabit. Through discussions about carbon, the functions of cell membranes, the activity of genes and proteins, the work of oxygen, and the passage of time, Frost recasts questions about the nature of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822361091
SKU
V9780822361091
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About Samantha Frost
Samantha Frost is Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the coeditor of New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, also published by Duke University Press, and the author of Lessons from a Materialist Thinker: Hobbesian Reflections on Ethics and Politics.
Reviews for Biocultural Creatures: Toward a New Theory of the Human
"This is a remarkable book, of interest and highly recommended to any researcher—across scientific, social science, and humanities disciplines—exploring the intersections of life sciences and politics, 'filling out the conceptual hunches' of posthumanism, or in any way intrigued by how matter matters at all levels of our creaturely experience."
Emily Beausoleil
Theory & Event
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