LEADER 04123nam 2200517 450 001 9910810046003321 005 20230118135112.0 010 $a90-04-50250-5 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004502505 035 $z(OCoLC)1263743496 035 $a(OCoLC)1289368965 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6827648 035 $a(EXLCZ)9920151504200041 100 $a20230118d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBefore humanity $eposthumanism and ancestrality /$fStefan Herbrechter 210 1$aLeiden, Netherlands ;$aBoston, Massachusetts :$cBrill,$d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aCritical Posthumanisms ;$vvolume 3 311 08$aPrint version: Herbrechter, Stefan Before Humanity Boston : BRILL,c2021 9789004502444 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aHalf 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 & -- 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. 330 $aBefore Humanity takes up the question of the post- in the posthuman from the position of ancestrality. Speculating about who or what comes after the human inevitably throws us back to our very beginnings. The before in Before Humanity in this context takes on two meanings: 1) what happened before we apparently became human? - which translates into a critical reading of paleo-anthropology, as well as evolutionary narratives of hominization; 2) living through the end of a certain (humanist, anthropocentric) notion of humanity, what tasks lie before us? - which provokes a critical reading of the Anthropocene and current narratives of geologization. In other words, Before Humanity investigates conceptualizations of humanity and asks whether we have ever been human and if not, what could, or maybe what should we have been?. 410 0$aCritical posthumanisms ;$vv. 3. 606 $aHuman evolution$xPhilosophy 606 $aPhilosophical anthropology 606 $aPaleoanthropology 606 $aFuturologists 615 0$aHuman evolution$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPhilosophical anthropology. 615 0$aPaleoanthropology. 615 0$aFuturologists. 676 $a599.938 700 $aHerbrechter$b Stefan$01639380 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810046003321 996 $aBefore humanity$94123333 997 $aUNINA