Posthumanism and phenomenology : the focus on the modern condition of boredom, solitude, loneliness and isolation
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Posthumanism and phenomenology : the focus on the modern condition of boredom, solitude, loneliness and isolation
(Analecta Husserliana : the yearbook of phenomenological research, 125)
Springer, c2023
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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
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