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- Title
“Manifold Creatures”: A Response to the Posthumanist Challenge.
- Authors
Badley, Graham Francis
- Abstract
“Manifold creatures” is a description used by Philip Roth to characterize who we are as human beings. The essay that follows first examines our manifoldness and our creatureliness as well as our attempts to become more humane and humanistic in our lives and views. However, the recent surge in interest in notions of transhumanism and posthumanism may be seen as direct challenges or even threats to humanism as a viable political and social stance. The essay concludes with the claim that a humanized humanism or an actively self-critical humanism is sufficiently strong to resist any of the challenges thrown down by militant posthumanists.
- Subjects
HUMAN beings; BIOLOGICAL evolution; HUMAN evolution; EVOLUTIONARY theories; NATURAL selection
- Publication
Qualitative Inquiry, 2018, Vol 24, Issue 6, p421
- ISSN
1077-8004
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077800417729839