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Author Bruns, Gerald L.

Title On ceasing to be human / Gerald L. Bruns
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 135 pages)
Contents Prologue : on the freedom of non-identity -- Otherwise than human (toward sovereignty) -- What is human recognition? (on zones of indistinction) -- Desubjectivation (Michel Foucault's aesthetics of experience) -- Becoming animal (some simple ways) -- Derrida's cat (who am I?)
Summary On Ceasing to be Human explores and develops a question posed by Stanley Cavell, "Can a human being be free of human nature?" particularly in terms of the link between freedom and nonidentity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Human beings -- Philosophy
Continental philosophy -- France
Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
Philosophy, Modern.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
Continental philosophy
Human beings -- Philosophy
Philosophy, Modern
France
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804775823
0804775826