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Infrahumanisms
- Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/personhood
Engelsk Hardback
Infrahumanisms
- Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/personhood
Engelsk Hardback

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In Infrahumanisms Megan H. Glick considers how conversations surrounding nonhuman life have impacted a broad range of attitudes toward forms of human difference such as race, sexuality, and health. She examines the history of human and nonhuman subjectivity as told through twentieth-century scientific and cultural discourses that include pediatrics, primatology, eugenics, exobiology, and obesity research. Outlining how the category of the human is continuously redefined in relation to the infrahuman-a liminal position of speciation existing between the human and the nonhuman-Glick reads a number of phenomena, from early twentieth-century efforts to define children and higher order primates as liminally human and the postwar cultural fascination with extraterrestrial life to anxieties over AIDS, SARS, and other cross-species diseases. In these cases the efforts to define a universal humanity create the means with which to reinforce notions of human difference and maintain human-nonhuman hierarchies. In foregrounding how evolving definitions of the human reflect shifting attitudes about social inequality, Glick shows how the consideration of nonhuman subjectivities demands a rethinking of long-held truths about biological meaning and difference.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781478001164
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
147800116X
Udg. Dato:
28 dec 2018
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
240mm
Højde:
160mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
28 dec 2018
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