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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785469603321

Autore

Bruns Gerald L

Titolo

On ceasing to be human [[electronic resource] /] / Gerald L. Bruns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, CA, : Stanford University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8047-7582-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 p.)

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Human beings - Philosophy

Continental philosophy - France

Philosophy, Modern - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Prologue: On the Freedom of Non-Identity; 1. Otherwise Than Human (Toward Sovereignty); 2. What Is Human Recognition? (On Zones of Indistinction); 3. Desubjectivation (Michel Foucault's Aesthetics of Experience); 4. Becoming Animal (Some Simple Ways); 5. Derrida's Cat (Who Am I?); Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

On Ceasing to be Human explores and develops a question posed by Stanley Cavell, ""Can a human being be free of human nature?"" particularly in terms of the link between freedom and nonidentity.