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Laughing On The Brink Of Humanity eBook

An Exercise In Epihumanism

de Jan Miernowski
idioma: inglês
Editor: State University of New York Press, novembro de 2024 ‧
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Stretching from antiquity to AI, a provocative study of the joyless laughter that emerges at the boundary of the human and the inhuman.

What does it mean to be human? And, more precisely, what does it mean to be human now, with both humanism and the humanities in crisis? In answer to these questions, Laughing on the Brink of Humanity seeks not some essence of the human but rather an epiphenomenal manifestation-a sign of the human. The book finds such a sign in the joyless, painful, and often deadly laughter that resonates when we cross the barrier between what is human and what is not: animality, machinery, divinity. Jan Miernowski brings together a wide swath of discourses and figures, from Plato and the Bible through early modern humanism, to Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, Hannah Arendt, Claude Lanzmann, Spike Jonze, Tom Stoppard, and Michel Houellebecq. Looking for laughter on the brink of humanity-in literature and philosophy, natural science and film, theology and computer science-the book offers an exercise in epihumanism appropriate to our posthuman age.

Laughing On The Brink Of Humanity

An Exercise In Epihumanism

de Jan Miernowski

Propriedade Descrição
ISBN: 9798855800012
Editor: State University of New York Press
Data de Lançamento: novembro de 2024
Idioma: Inglês
Tipo de produto: eBook
Formato e Compatibilidade:
Coleção: Suny Series, Literature... In Theory
Classificação Temática: eBooks em Inglês > Literatura > Ensaios
eBooks em Inglês > Dicionários e Enciclopédias > Francês
eBooks em Inglês > Ciências Sociais e Humanas > Filosofia
EAN: 9798855800012
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