Posthumanism and phenomenology : the focus on the modern condition of boredom, solitude, loneliness and isolation

Author(s)

• Hornbuckle, Calley A.
• Smith, Jadwiga S.
• Smith, William S. (William Stallings)

Bibliographic Information

Posthumanism and phenomenology : the focus on the modern condition of boredom, solitude, loneliness and isolation

Calley A. Hornbuckle, Jadwiga S. Smith, William S. Smith, editors

（Analecta Husserliana : the yearbook of phenomenological research, 125）

Springer, c2023

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume investigates the intersection of phenomenology and posthumanism by rethinking the human and nonhuman specifically with regard to boredom, isolation, loneliness, and solitude. By closely examining these concepts from phenomenological, philosophical, and literary perspectives, this diverse collection of essays offers insights into the human and nonhuman in the absence of the Other and within the postapocalyptic. Topics of interest include modalities of presence and absence with regard to body, time, beast, and things; the phenomenology of corporeity; ontopoiesis and the sublime; alienation, absurdity, and phenomenology of existence; memory, posthistoricity, posthuman nihilism, and posthumanity; speculative cosmology, cosmic holism, and consciousness; ecophenomenology; and the philosophy of the aesthetic. These essays parse and probe distinct aspects of the posthuman condition and what it means to exist in a posthuman world, thereby furthering the vast, rich scope of phenomenological research and study. This text appeals to students and researchers working in these topics and fields.

Table of Contents

Part I Boredom, Temporality, Transhumanity 1.The Treatment of Boredom in Heidegger and Insomnia in Levinas Jadwiga S. Smith 2.Modulation to a New Key in The Syntax of Time: Peter Byrne Manchester and Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's Common Telos of the All Randolph Dible 3.From Boredom to a Posthumanist Fulfillment Marcella Tarozzi Goldsmith 4.Experiencing Boredom: A Phenomenological Analysis Tonu Viik Part II The Body / Technology / Ecology 5.Sloterdijk and Heidegger on the Question of Humanism Fiachra Long 6.On The Growing Solitude of the Body Marie Antonios Sassine 7.Somatic Dissection and the Journey of Being-Animal Roberto Marchesini 8."Strange Kinship": Romantic-Era Women Writers and the Posthuman Calley Hornbuckle Part III Body, Culture and Society 9.The Distance of the Exotic: Bullough's Idea of Psychical Distance from the Perspective of Levinas's Concept of the Aesthetic Milos Sevcik 10.Torture Acts: Inclusion and Exclusion in Katherine Dunn's Geek Love Abigail Hess 11.Humor and Amusement Based on Incongruities: A Dialectical Approach Anna Malecka Part IV A Shrinking World 12.The Meaning of Solitude/Loneliness/Isolation in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God Tony E. Afejuku 13.Epistemic Ecology and Ben Okri's "diminishing boundaries of a shrinking world" in "Heraclitus' Golden River" from Wild (2012) Rosemary Gray Part V Narrative and Solitude 14.Death and the Absence of Others: A Narratological Investigation of Death and Solitude John N. Balsavich Part VI Aesthetics and Ontology 15.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 Bruce Ross 16.On Tragic Feeling and Human Weakness Victor G. Rivas Lopez

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC18910422
• ISBN:
  • 9783031104138
• Country Code: sz
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cham
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 211 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 142.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Phenomenology
  • LCSH : Posthumanism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BC01904141