Future of Humanity: Revisioning the Human in the Posthuman Age (Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786609568 ISBN 13: 9781786609564

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

This volume offers an interdisciplinary conversation about several possible futures for the human species. The contributors elaborate on the issues that trouble our very understanding of what it means to be human in the 21st century, expanding on recent scholarly discussions about the posthuman and nonhuman turn.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Pavlina Radia is Associate Dean of Arts and Science and Associate Professor in English Studies at Nipissing University. She is also the Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Arts and Sciences at Nipissing University. She is the author of Nomadic Modernisms and Diasporic Journeys of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles: "Two 28 Very Serious Ladies" (Brill, 2016) and Ecstatic Consumption: The Spectacle of Global Dystopia in Contemporary American Literature (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016). She is also a co-editor of Food and Appetites: The Hunger Artist and the Arts with Ann McCulloch (CSP, 2012).

Sarah Fiona Winters is Associate Professor in English Studies at Nipissing University. Her research focuses on the representations of evil in postwar children's fantasy and on the relationship of fandom studies to digital pedagogies. She has published articles on C.S. Lewis, Philip Pullman, J.K. Rowling, Suzanne Collins, and Margaret Mahy.

Laurie Kruk is Professor of English Studies at Nipissing University. She has published The Voice is the Story: Conversations with Canadian Writers of Short Fiction (2003) and Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story (2016). She has also published three collections of poetry: Theories of the World (1992), Loving the Alien (2006), My Mother Did Not Tell Stories (2012).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1786609568
• ISBN 13: 9781786609564
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Herausgeber: Kruk Laurie, Radia Pavlina, Winters Sarah Fiona
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