The Emancipatory Project of Posthumanism

ISBN-13: 9781032096438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 188 str.

Stephen Hobden

Opis

This book defines a posthuman approach as one that has a starting point in complexity thinking, promotes a non-Newtonian approach to the study of the social world, and advocates a non-anthropocentric perspective, considering various interpretations of the term 'emancipation.’

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Emancipation and its critics; Chapter 3 A politics of enchantment: the power and fragility of things; Chapter 4 A politics of attachment: actor-network theory; Chapter 5 How to change a complex world; Chapter 6 Critical posthumanism and the lives of others; Chapter 7 Creaturely politics:beyond the imperial human; Chapter 8 Towards posthumanist emancipation – a terraist manifesto; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

Erika Cudworth is Professor of Feminist Animal Studies in the School of Social Sciences, University of East London, where she teaches International Relations, researches in the fields of international political theory, critical animal studies and gender, and generally thinks about things posthuman.

Stephen Hobden is Reader in International Relations in the School of Social Sciences at the University of East London, where he teaches International Relations theory.