Renaissance Personhood: Materiality, Taxonomy, Process, Kevin Curran

Автор: Ryan Derek
Название: Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory
ISBN: 1474402348 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474402347
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Explores the materialist theories of sexuality, animality, and posthuman life. How does Virginia Woolf conceptualise the material world? In what ways has Woolf`s modernism affected understandings of materiality, and what new perspectives does she offer contemporary theoretical debates?

Автор: Ellis Cristin
Название: Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 082327845X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823278459
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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From the eighteenth-century abolitionist motto "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?" to the Civil Rights-era declaration "I AM a Man," antiracism has engaged in a struggle for the recognition of black humanity. It has done so, however, even as the very definition of the human has been called into question by the biological sciences. While this conflict between liberal humanism and biological materialism animates debates in posthumanism and critical race studies today, Antebellum Posthuman argues that it first emerged as a key question in the antebellum era.

In a moment in which the authority of science was increasingly invoked to defend slavery and other racist policies, abolitionist arguments underwent a profound shift, producing a new, materialist strain of antislavery. Engaging the works of Douglass, Thoreau, and Whitman, and Dickinson, Cristin Ellis identifies and traces the emergence of an antislavery materialism in mid-nineteenth century American literature, placing race at the center of the history of posthumanist thought. Turning to contemporary debates now unfolding between posthumanist and critical race theorists, Ellis demonstrates how this antebellum posthumanism highlights the difficulty of reconciling materialist ontologies of the human with the project of social justice.

Автор: Stephanou
Название: Inhuman Materiality in Gothic Media
ISBN: 1138227439 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138227439
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book examines the manifestations of materiality across different gothic media to show the inhuman at the heart of literature, film and contemporary media, outlining a philosophy of horror that deals with the horror of the nonhuman, the machine and the nonorganic.