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On Ceasing to Be Human Hardcover - 2010

by Gerald Bruns


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The philosopher Stanley Cavell once asked, "Can a human being be free of human nature?" On Ceasing to Be Human examines philosophical as well as literary texts and contexts, in which various senses of Cavell's question might be explored and developed. During the past thirty or so years, the very concept of "being human" has been called into question within such fields as cybernetics, animal-rights theory, analytic philosophy (neurophilosophy in particular). This book examines these issues, but its main concern is the link between freedom and nonidentity that Cavell's question implies, and which turns out to be a major concern among the thinkers Bruns takes up in this book: Maurice Blanchot, Emmanuel Levinas, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari, and Jacques Derrida. Each of these is, in different ways, a philosopher of the "singular" for whom the singular cannot be reduced to concepts, categories, distinctions, or the rule of identity.

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  • Title On Ceasing to Be Human
  • Author Gerald Bruns
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 151
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press
  • Date 2010-10-08
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780804772082 / 0804772088
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.7 in (21.59 x 14.22 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophy, Modern - 20th century, Human beings - Philosophy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010016752
  • Dewey Decimal Code 128

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About the author

Gerald L. Bruns is William P. & Hazel B. White Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent books are On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy (2006) and The Material of Poetry (2005).
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