1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBSOBE00040513

Autore

Caesar, Gaius Iulius

Titolo

1: Bellum Gallicum / edidit Wolfgang Hering

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leipzig : B. G. Teubner, 1987

ISBN

3322003515

Descrizione fisica

XX, 179 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810046003321

Autore

Herbrechter Stefan

Titolo

Before humanity : posthumanism and ancestrality / / Stefan Herbrechter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

90-04-50250-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Critical Posthumanisms ; ; volume 3

Disciplina

599.938

Soggetti

Human evolution - Philosophy

Philosophical anthropology

Paleoanthropology

Futurologists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preamble -- Introduction: Before … -- Chapter 1 The



Other Human: On William Golding's The Inheritors -- 1 Prehistoric Fiction and Ancestrality -- 2 The Inheritors: Morality, Ideology, Humanism -- 3 Paleontology and the Neanderthal -- 4 Language, Cognition and 'Becoming Human' -- 5 Animism and Empathy -- 6 Becoming Human? -- Interlude 1 Languages and Evolutions -- Interlude 2 Animism without Humans, or Belief without Belief -- 1 'Believing' in Animism -- 2 Alter-Anthropological Animism (or a-a-a) -- 3 Posthumanist Animism? -- 4 Techno-Animism and the Re-Enchantment of Science -- 5 Animism Under Erasure -- 6 The Animism to Come -- 7 Seriously, But Perhaps Not Too Seriously? -- Interlude 3 Ape/Man -- Chapter 2 About to Forget … the Human: On Max Frisch's Man in the Holocene -- 1 Herr Geiser Is Losing His Humanity … -- 2 Catastrophe, Ecocide and Extinction in Man in the Holocene -- 3 Forgetting and Geiser's Mnemotechnics -- 4 Verzettelung -- 5 Pre- and Posthistory, Geology and Ancestrality -- 6 Before Humanity: Dementia and Ecography -- Interlude 4 Geology and Deep Time -- Interlude 5 Lascaux, Geophilia and the 'Cradle of Humanity' -- 1 Bataille - The Neolithic 'Origin' of Art and Humanity -- 2 Baudrillard - Lascaux and Simulation -- 3 Inhumanist Aesthetic? -- Chapter 3 Unsociable Robots: Empathy in Robot and Frank -- 1 Empathy Makes 'Us' Human? -- 2 Robot &amp -- Frank -- 3 Empathy and Sociable Robots -- 4 Posthuman(ist) Empathy? -- Conclusion: Becoming Inhuman -- 1 So You Think You're Becoming Human? -- 2 Post/Anthropology - Before and After Humans -- 3 Inhumanism, or, Becoming Inhuman -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Before Humanity takes up the question of the post- in the posthuman from the position of ancestrality. Speculating about who or what comes after the human inevitably throws us back to our very beginnings. The before in Before Humanity in this context takes on two meanings: 1) what happened before we apparently became human? - which translates into a critical reading of paleo-anthropology, as well as evolutionary narratives of hominization; 2) living through the end of a certain (humanist, anthropocentric) notion of humanity, what tasks lie before us? - which provokes a critical reading of the Anthropocene and current narratives of geologization. In other words, Before Humanity investigates conceptualizations of humanity and asks whether we have ever been human and if not, what could, or maybe what should we have been?.