After the Human

After the Human provides a comprehensive overview of how a range of philosophical, ethical, and political ideas under the framework of posthumanism have transformed humanities scholarship today. Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary scholars and perspectives, it puts into dialogue the major influences from philosophy, literary study, anthropology, and science studies that set the stage for a range of new questions to be asked about the relationship of the human to other life. The book's central argument is that posthumanism's challenge to and disruption of traditional humanist knowledge is so significant as to presage a sea-change from the humanities into the posthumanities. After the Human documents the emergence of posthumanist ideas in the fractures within traditional disciplines, examines the new objects of analysis that thus came into prominence, and theorizes new interdisciplinary methods of study that followed.

• Contextualizes the shifting terminology that shapes this area of study, and clarifies a history of various terms, from antihumanism to posthumanism, transhumanism, critical posthumanism and beyond
• Demonstrates that there are a certain shared set of premises across a range of posthumanist thinkers, but also points to areas of tension or omission among them
• Describes a trajectory of how scholarly enquiry has been changed in both its objects of analysis and its methods of theorization via the emergence of a diverse set of philosophical perspectives, situated analyses, and ethical frameworks loosely categorized as posthumanism