TY - BOOK AU - MacCormack,Patricia TI - Posthuman Ethics: Embodiment and Cultural Theory SN - 9781317077312 AV - BJ320 .M333 2016 U1 - 170 PY - 2012/// CY - Oxford PB - Taylor & Francis Group KW - Ethics, Modern-21st century KW - Philosophical anthropology KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover Page -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Posthuman Ethics -- 2 The Great Ephemeral Tattooed Skin -- 3 Art: Inhuman Ecstasy -- 4 Animalities: Ethics and Absolute Abolition -- 5 The Wonder of Teras -- 6 Mystic Queer -- 7 Vitalistic Ethics: An End to Necrophilosophy -- Epilogue: After Life -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - Posthuman theory asks in various ways what it means to be human in a time where philosophy has become suspicious of claims about human subjectivity. Those subjects who were historically considered aberrant and our future lives becoming increasingly hybrid show we have always been and are continuously transforming into posthumans. What are the ethical considerations of thinking the posthuman? Posthuman Ethics asks not what the posthuman is, but how posthuman theory creates new, imaginative ways of understanding relations between lives UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5207761 ER -