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Can the human be thought of outside humanism?
The question of what it means to be human has never before been more difficult and more contested. The human, with a complicated social history that has rarely been examined, remains entrenched in traditional Enlightenment thinking. Human, All Too Human considers how we might radicalize our notion of the human.
Human, All Too Human examines how we explain our interest in anthropomorphism and our fascination with species categorizations. The essays explore what we mean by "things" and how the integrity of the human may already be compromised by them. The contributors, who represent a wide range of academic disciplines, challenge some of our most cherished cultural classifications. By inviting us to place the traditional subject of knowledge in the unsettling position of object, these writers interrogate the boundary distinctions that, until now, have exempted "the human" from the vigilant analysis it so urgently requires.
The question of what it means to be human has never before been more difficult and more contested. The human, with a complicated social history that has rarely been examined, remains entrenched in traditional Enlightenment thinking. Human, All Too Human considers how we might radicalize our notion of the human.
Human, All Too Human examines how we explain our interest in anthropomorphism and our fascination with species categorizations. The essays explore what we mean by "things" and how the integrity of the human may already be compromised by them. The contributors, who represent a wide range of academic disciplines, challenge some of our most cherished cultural classifications. By inviting us to place the traditional subject of knowledge in the unsettling position of object, these writers interrogate the boundary distinctions that, until now, have exempted "the human" from the vigilant analysis it so urgently requires.
