Cover illustration: © Sara Herbrechter, Inkling Illustrations, “Ancestors”, 2019. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Herbrechter, Stefan, author.
Title: Before humanity : posthumanism and ancestrality / By Stefan Herbrechter.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] | Series: Critical posthumanisms 1872-0943 ; Volume 3 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “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?” – Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021046656 (print) | LCCN 2021046657 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004502444 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004502505 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Human evolution–Philosophy. | Philosophical anthropology. | Paleoanthropology. | Futurologists.
Classification: LCC GN281 .H456 2022 (print) | LCC GN281 (ebook) | DDC 599.93/8–dc23/eng/20211015
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ISSN 1872-0943
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