Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism Mind Matter and the Life Sciences After Kant Edgar Landgraf 1501335685 9781501335686

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• ISBN 10: 1501335685
• ISBN 13: 9781501335686
• Author: Kant Edgar Landgraf

The literary and scientific renaissance that struck Germany around 1800 is usually taken to be the cradle of contemporary humanism. Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism shows how figures like Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe as well as scientists specializing in the emerging modern life and cognitive sciences not only established but also transgressed the boundaries of the “human.” This period so broadly painted as humanist by proponents and detractors alike also grappled with ways of challenging some of humanism’s most cherished assumptions: the dualisms, for example, between freedom and nature, science and art, matter and spirit, mind and body, and thereby also between the human and the nonhuman. Posthumanism is older than we think, and the so-called “humanists” of the late Enlightenment have much to offer our contemporary re-thinking of the human.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Posthumanism after Kant

Part I: Dissecting the Human Body: Embodiment, Cognition, and the Early Life Sciences

2. Vertiginous Systems of the Soul

3. Brain Matters in the German Enlightenment: Animal Cognition and Species Difference in Herder, Soemmerring, and Gall

4. Agency without Humans: Normativity and Path Dependence in the Nineteenth-Century Life Sciences

5. Embodied Phantasy: Johannes Müller and the Nineteenth-Century Neurophysiological Foundations of Critical Posthumanism

Part II: Who’s Afraid of Idealism? Materialism, Posthumanism, and the Post-Kantian Legacy

6. Kant and Posthumanism

7. Intimations of the Posthuman: Kant’s Natural Beauty

8. Farewell to Ontology: Hegel after Humanism

9. Steps to an Ecology of Geist: Hegel, Bateson, and the Spirit of Posthumanism

10. Protecting Natural Beauty from Humanism’s Violence: The Healing Effects of Alexander von Humboldt’s Naturgemälde

Part III: Cyborg Enlightenment: Boundaries of the (Post-)Human Around 1800

11. Posthumanist Thinking in the Work of Heinrich von Kleist

12. Positing the Robotic Self: From Fichte to Ex Machina

13. In Defense of Humanism: Envisioning a Posthuman Future and Its Critique in Goethe’s Faust

14. Beyond Death: Posthuman Perspectives in Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland’s Macrobiotics

15. The Indifference of the Inorganic

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