Posthumanism and phenomenology : the focus on the modern condition of boredom, solitude, loneliness and isolation / / edited by Calley A. Hornbuckle, Jadwiga S. Smith, and William S. Smith

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2023]; ©2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 pages)
• Disciplina: 142.7
• Soggetto topico: Posthumanism; Phenomenology
• Persona (resp. second.): SmithJadwiga; SmithWilliam Sheppard; HornbuckleCalley A.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: Boredom, Temporality, Transhumanity -- The Treatment of Boredom in Heidegger and Insomnia in Levinas -- References -- Modulation to a New Key in The Syntax of Time: Peter Byrne Manchester and Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's Common Telos of the All -- References -- From Boredom to a Posthumanist Fulfillment -- References -- Experiencing Boredom: A Phenomenological Analysis -- References -- Part II: The Body/Technology/Ecology -- Sloterdijk and Heidegger on the Question of Humanism -- Heidegger's Letter on Humanism -- Sloterdijk's Argument -- Conclusion -- References -- The Growing Solitude of the Body -- Spatial Presence -- Movement Toward the Other -- Phenomenology of Corporeity -- References -- Somatic Dissection and the Journey of Animal-Being -- Introduction -- Relational Ontology -- Emancipation from Animality and Animal Epiphany -- Technopoiesis and Somatic Dissection -- References -- "Strange Kinship": Romantic-era Women Writers and the Posthuman -- References -- Part III: Body, Culture and Society -- The Distance of the Exotic: Bullough's Idea of Psychical Distance from the Perspective of Levinas's Concept of the Aesthetic -- References -- Torture Acts: Inclusion and Exclusion in Katherine Dunn's Geek Love -- References -- Humor and Amusement Based on Incongruities: A Dialectical Approach -- The Historical Overview -- Contemporary Theories of Humor Referring to the Concept of Incongruity -- References -- Part IV: A Shrinking World -- The Meaning of Solitude/Loneliness/Isolation in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God -- References -- Epistemic Ecology and Ben Okri's "Diminishing Boundaries of a Shrinking World" in "Heraclitus' Golden River" from Wild (2012) -- Introduction -- Epistemic Eco-Phenomenology and the River of Creative Inspiration -- "Heraclitus' Golden River" -- Conclusion. ; References -- Part V: Narrative and Solitude -- Death and the Absence of Others: A Narratological Investigation of Death and Solitude -- References -- Part VI: Aesthetics and Ontology -- An Apology for Abstraction in an Age of High Definition and Photo Realism in the Work of Kandinsky and the White Shaman Rock Art Panel and Related Rock Art Sites -- References -- On Tragic Feeling and Human Weakness -- On the Rightness of Feeling -- On the Dialectics of Feeling -- On the Nexus of Feeling and Music -- On Human Weakness -- On the Becoming of Man -- On the Current Sense of the Last Man -- A Critical Option for the Present -- Colophon -- References.
• Titolo autorizzato: Posthumanism and phenomenology
• ISBN: 3-031-10414-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910632481203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Analecta Husserliana