Cudworth / Hobden The Emancipatory Project of Posthumanism

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-20323-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 188 Seiten

Reihe: Interventions

This book defines a posthuman approach as one that has a starting point in complexity thinking, promotes a non-Newtonian approach to the study of the social world, and advocates a non-anthropocentric perspective. With the emergence of viewpoints critical of such approaches, the authors address these critiques. They examine the question of policy-making under conditions of complexity, and develop such questions by addressing the following themes:

- In a world typified by complexity, how is it possible to pursue political projects?

- How have ideas about emancipation been developed, and does the notion of emancipation still hold relevance for the contemporary world order?

- What are the implications of differing posthuman/new materialist viewpoints for an emancipatory project?

The book considers various interpretations of the term 'emancipation', looking at work that has appeared within the posthumanist framework such as Bruno Latour and Jane Bennett. The authors lay out their own account of posthumanism, demonstrating how it avoids the problems that have been found in other work within this framework, and considering the possibilities for emancipatory projects and public policy.

This is the first book to provide an overview of a range of different perspectives within a posthuman framework, and to make the argument for a progressive emancipatory project from a posthuman perspective. It will be of great interest to postgraduates and scholars of International Relations, Political theory, Environmental Studies, and Sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cudworth, Erika

Hobden, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Emancipation and its critics Part 1: Posthumanisms 3. Entangled Existence: Vital Materialism 4. A Politics of Attachment: Actor-Network Theory 5. Speculative Realism: Complex Pluralism Part 2: Critical Posthumanism 6. Living with complexity 7. Critical Posthumanism 8. Towards posthuman emancipation: creaturely politics and the making of community

Über Autor(innen)

Erika Cudworth is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, UK. She is author of Environment and Society.

Stephen Hobden is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, UK.