Encounters with the Posthuman and the Environment [Hardcover]

With the advent of posthumanism, many scholars in the humanities have started to explore a transforming conception of the human, recognizing the limits of anthropocentricism both within and between disciplines. Posthumanism may be defined in various ways but the emphasis in this volume is on the idea of constitutive alterity, not simply in the relationship between human beings and other human beings, but in that between human beings and other species and life forms, and between human beings, nature and technology. As a result, Encounters with the Posthuman and the Environment is located at a crossover between posthumanism and environmental humanities. Between them they move not only between disciplines but also between levels of abstraction, from the most general reflection to the most everyday empirical detail. At the same time, all the chapters are case studies, whether they address particular aspects of philosophical or scientific posthumanism, analyze particular pieces of film, theatre, art, literature, or recall for us instructive episodes from social history. The aim at any rate is to give a feel for the range and depth of the posthumanist problematic within the wider context of environmental humanities.This volume is located at a crossover between posthumanism and environmental humanities.

Inci Bilgin Tekin is associate professor of English language and literature at Istanbul Bilgi University.
Zeynep Talay Turner is associate professor of philosophy at Istanbul Bilgi University.

Preface: The Fate of Vitruvian Man
Introduction
Chapter 1: Humanism, Posthumanism, Animals, Earth
Chapter 2: Encounters with Ancestors: Being/s Before the Human
Chapter 3: Spinoza and Renaturalization
Chapter 4: Posthuman, Literary Canon and A Difficult Dialogue: Literature about Environment or Environmental Literature?
Chapter 5: Exiting Human Environment: Metamorphosis in Bilge Karasu's The Garden of Departed Cats
Chapter 6: Voice(s): Ontological lC¼