Becoming Human: New Perspectives on the Inhuman Condition - Couverture rigide

Sheehan, Paul

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0275978990 ISBN 13 : 9780275978990

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 2003

Synopsis

The postmodern condition has delivered us into a world where our humanity can no longer be taken for granted. Whether his place is ceded to nature or technology, man is no longer the measure of all things, rather, he is locked into processes in which the only permanence is change. Becoming Human offers a sustained engagement with these and other paradoxes about human being and its nature in the 21st-century world. Beginning with the notion that the human is not an immutable given but rather an ever-changing entity, this collection of essays considers our multifarious condition through the perspective of a variety of fields, including philosophy, sociology, literature, and film studies.

In this book, the authors make coherent and accessible a sprawling field. The diversity of writers and approaches challenges current thinking about humanity, providing material for future scholars and researchers and prompting us to ponder these questions more deeply, while at the same time offering the reader a comprehensive, intelligible survey of recent inquiries into a potentially bewildering field.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

PAUL SHEEHAN is a writer and researcher based in Sydney, Australia. The author of Modernism, Narrative, and Humanism, he has also published articles on subjects ranging from postmodernism to Samuel Beckett.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0275978990
• ISBN 13: 9780275978990
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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