Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys and speculates on the ways in which the posthumanist paradigm emerged, transformed, and might further develop across the humanities. With its focus on the posthuman as a figure, on posthumanism as a social discourse, and on posthumanisation as an on-going historical and ontological process, the volume highlights the relationship between the humanities and sciences. The essays engage with posthumanism in connection with subfields like the environmental humanities, health humanities, animal studies, and disability studies. The book also traces the historical representations and understanding of posthumanism across time. Additionally, the contributions address genre and forms such as autobiography, games, art, film, museums, and topics such as climate change, speciesism, anthropocentrism, and biopolitics to name a few. This handbook considers posthumanism's impact across disciplines and areas of study.

Author: Stefan Herbrechter
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 05/17/2023
Pages: 1236
Weight: 6lbs
Size: 9.29h x 5.98w x 2.28d
ISBN: 9783031049576
2023 Edition

About the Author
Stefan Herbrechter is a writer and research fellow at Coventry University and Privatdozent at Heidelberg University.

Ivan Callus is Professor of English at the University of Malta.

Manuela Rossini works as a research manager in the central administration of the University of Basel and is associated to its English Department as Executive Director of the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSAeu).

Marija Grech is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Department of English at the University of Malta and a Visiting Fellow of the School of Humanities & Languages at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Megen de Bruin-Molé (University of Southampton) is a scholar and university lecturer working in the UK.

Christopher John Müller is a lecturer in Cultural Studies & Media at Macquarie University, Sydney and an Honorary Research Associate in Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University.