Samantha Frost: Biocultural Creatures

Cover: 9780822361282 | Biocultural Creatures | Toward a New Theory of the Human | Frost

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Beschreibung

In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging the idea of human exceptionalism as well as other theories of subjectivity that rest on a distinction between biology and culture, Frost proposes that humans are biocultural creatures who quite literally are cultured within the material, social, and symbolic worlds they inhabit. Through discussions about carbon, the functions of cell membranes, the activity of genes and proteins, the work of oxygen, and the passage of time, Frost recasts questions about the nature of matter, identity, and embodiment. In doing so, she elucidates the imbrication of the biological and cultural within the corporeal self. In remapping the relation of humans to their habitats and arriving at the idea that humans are biocultural creatures, Frost provides new theoretical resources for responding to political and environmental crises and for thinking about how to transform the ways we live.

Über den Autor

Samantha Frost is Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the coeditor of New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, also published by Duke University Press, and the author of Lessons from a Materialist Thinker: Hobbesian Reflections on Ethics and Politics.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. Carbon 31

2. Membranes 53

3. Proteins 77

4. Oxygen 101

5. Time 119

Conclusion 147

Notes 161

References 167

Index 183

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780822361282
ISBN-10:	0822361280
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Frost, Samantha
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	228 x 149 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Samantha Frost
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.06.2016
Gewicht:	0,328 kg