The Posthuman Imagination
Subtitle: Literature at the Edge of the Human
By: edited by Tanmoy Kundu and Saikat Sarkar
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781527565937; 9781527564046
Subjects: Humanism; Nature & existence of God; Cultural studies; Social forecasting, future studies
Description: This volume, including an extended interview with noted philosopher of posthumanism Francesca Ferrando, explores the contemporary philosophical, literary and cultural landscapes that have emerged as a response to the unavoidable crisis faced by humans in the Anthropocene era. The essays gathered here map posthumanism both as theoretical posthumanism, which primarily seeks to develop new knowledge, and as practical posthumanism, which emphasizes socio-political, economic, and technological changes. Posthumanism, which explores how one can address the question of what means to be human today, is.