Posthumous Life
Download or Read eBook Posthumous Life PDF written by Jami Weinstein and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Jami Weinstein |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 540 |
| Release | : 2017-03-28 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780231544320 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0231544324 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Posthumous Life by : Jami Weinstein
Book excerpt: Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent "turns" toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Questioning the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, the essays in this volume examine the boundaries and significance of the human and the humanities in the wake of various redefinitions of what counts as life. They explore the possibility of theorizing life without assuming it to be either a simple substrate or an always-mediated effect of culture and difference. Posthumous Life provides new ways of thinking about animals, plants, humans, difference, sexuality, race, gender, identity, the earth, and the future.
