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Title Becoming human : new perspectives on the inhuman condition / edited by Paul Sheehan ; foreword by Steven Connor
Published Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003

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Description xvi, 198 pages ; 25 cm
Contents 1. The backgrounds of human being. Humanism and human being: beyond essentialism -- The rehumanization of art: modernism, technology, and the crisis of humanism -- Is humor human? 2. Naturalizing human dominion. Philosophie au naturel -- Nature and culture: the mythic register -- That way of the word: nature, history, human ontology. 3. Screen narratvies of human becoming. Death twenty-four times a second: the inorganic body and the cinema -- Toward a new demonology -- Rights of sacrifice. 4. Politics of human becoming. The project of humanity -- Value, justice, and the wilderness ideal -- On critical humility
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-188) and index
Subject Philosophical anthropology
Author Sheehan, Paul, 1960-
LC no. 2002193004
ISBN 0275978990
9780275978990