Beyond Human investigates what it means to call ourselves human beings in relation to both our distant past and our possible futures as a species, and the questions this might raise for our relationship with the myriad species with which we share the planet. Drawing on insights from zoology, theology, cultural studies and aesthetics, an international line-up of contributors explore such topics as our origins as reflected in early cave art in the upper Palaeolithic through to our prospects at the forefront of contemporary biotechnology. In the process, the book positions "the human" in readiness for what many have characterized as our transhuman or posthuman future. For if our status as rational animals or "animals that think" has traditionally distinguished us as apparently superior to other species, this distinction has become increasingly problematic. It has come to be seen as based on skills and technologies that do not distinguish us so much as position us as transitional animals. It is the direction and consequences of this transition that is the central concern of Beyond Human.

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Information

Publisher

Continuum

Year

2012

ISBN

9781441171245

Edition

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
PART ONE: Animality: Boundaries and Definitions
Chapter 1 Incidents in the Animal Revolution
Chapter 2 Being a Known Animal1
Chapter 3 Beyond the Pain Principle
PART TWO: Representing Animality
Chapter 4 What We Can Do: Art Methodologies and Parities in Meeting
Chapter 5 Horse-Crazy Girls: Alternative Embodiments and Socialities
Chapter 6 Writing Relations: The Crab, the Lobster, the Orchid, the Primrose, You, Me, Chaos and Literature1
PART THREE: Thinking Beyond the Divide
Chapter 7 Affective Animal: Bataille, Lascaux and the Mediatization of the Sacred1
Chapter 8 Levinas, Bataille and the Theology of Animal Life
Chapter 9 Degrees of ‘Freedom’: Humans as Primates in Dialogue with Hans Urs von Balthasar
PART FOUR: Animal–Human–Machine–God
Chapter 10 Inhuman Geometry: Aurochs, Angels and the Refuge of Art
Chapter 11 Articulating the Inhuman: God, Animal, Machine
Chapter 12 Transforming the Human Body
Bibliography
Index