Title: Inhuman reflections : thinking the limits of the human /
Authors: Brewster, Scott.
Publisher: Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Identity (Psychology); Human beings in literature.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Abstract: This text asks what it is to be human. Spectres, cyborgs, clones, aliens - representations of the inhuman hybrid seem more various and multiform than ever before. It examines the impact of science and technology on culture and representation.
Contents: Part I: Modernity and the inhuman / David Owen -- The inhuman, the all-too-human and the over-human: Nietzsche, ethics and enlightenment / David Owen -- Freedom, phusis, techne: thinking the inhuman / Joanna Hodge -- The anxiety of the little girl: infancy, capital and critique / Gary Banham -- The vitalisation of aesthetic form: Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Focillon / James Urpeth -- Part II: Inhuman resources / Richard Walker -- Romanticism, repitition, reiteration (sublimity, modernity, in-humanity) / Fred Botting -- Alien induction: hypnosis, psychoanalysis, literature / Scott Brewster -- Photographing the gh(o)(a)stly image of undercover femininity: Margaret Oliphant's 'The Library Window' and the case of the Cottingley fairies / Lucie Armitt -- A change in physical economy: identity and the rejection of modernity in Thomas De Quincey's confession / Richard Walker -- Part III: Inhuman futures / John J. Joughin -- Triandria: a story from The [+]Net[+] of desire / Sue Thomas -- Beyond the cinematic body: human emotion versus digital technology in Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du Cinéma / James Williams -- Imaging space through the inhuman gaze / Megan Stern -- Surviving the inhuman / Howard Caygill.