Author: Yi-Fu Tua
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Pre
Keywords: posthumanities, china, home, coming
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2007-04-06
List price: $55.50
ISBN-10: 081664991X
ISBN-13: 9780816649914

In the summer of 2005, distinguished geographer Yi-Fu Tuan ventured to China to speak at an international architectural conference, returning for the first time to the place he had left as a child sixty-four years before. He traveled from Beijing to Shanghai, addressing college audiences, floating down the Yangtze River on a riverboat, and visiting his former home in Chongqing.   In this enchanting volume, Tuan’s childhood memories and musings on the places encountered during this homecoming are interspersed with new lectures, engaging overarching principles of human geography a

Author: Cary Wolfe
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: posthumanities, posthumanism
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-12-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0816666156
ISBN-13: 9780816666157

What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and technological? Can a new kind of humanities-posthumanities-respond to the redefinition of humanity’s place in the world by both the technological and the biological or "green" continuum in which the "human" is but one life form among many? Exploring how both critical thought along with cultural practice have reacted to this radical repositioning,