The Nonhuman Turn
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Nonhuman Turn
By (Author) Richard Grusin
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
19th May 2015
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Cultural studies
Social and cultural anthropology
141
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 38mm
Description
This is the first book to name and consolidate a wide array of current critical, theoretical, and philosophical approaches to the humanities and social sciences under the concept of the nonhuman turn. Each of these approaches is engaged in decentering the human in favor of a concern for the nonhuman, understood by contributors in a variety of waysin terms of animals, affectivity, bodies, materiality, technologies, and organic and geophysical systems.
Reviews
"As we contemplate the relevance of the humanities in the twenty- first century, The Nonhuman Turn offers a valuable, if provocative, direction to pursuequestion the human in the humanities."ISLE
"A good overview of the various strands of thinking that have contributed to thought on the Anthropocene in relation to media."The Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
"A fascinating, daring and challenging read that deserves to fuel discussion and raises some interesting challenges to anthropocentric critical discourse."The Anthropocene Review Blog
"Presents rich, compelling interdisciplinary work that pushes the boundary of how we understand the human and the nonhuman, relationality, art, sympathy, and literary critical writing."Configurations
Author Bio
Richard Grusin is director of the Center for 21st Century Studies and professor of English at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee. He is the author of several books, including Premediation: Affect and Mediality after 9/11.
