1st Edition

Human, All Too Human

Edited By Diana Fuss Copyright 1996
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

The question of what it means to be human has never before been more difficult and more contested. The human, with a complicated social history that his rarely been examined, remains entrenched in traditional Enlightenment thinking. Human, All Too Human considers how we might radicalize our notion of the human. Can the human be thought outside humanism? Any rethinking of the human... Read more
Introduction, Diana Fuss; Part 1 Animal; Chapter 1 Heavy Petting, Marjorie Garber; Chapter 2 Barring the Cross, Harriet Ritvo; Part 2 Thing; Chapter 3 The Dream of a Butterfly, Rey Chow; Chapter 4 City Things, Nancy Armstrong; Chapter 5 Muteness Envy, Barbara Johnson; Chapter 6 1553: Putting a First Foot Forward, David Wills; Part 3 Child; Chapter 7 “A Heterogeneous Thing”: Female Childhood and the Rise of Racial Thinking in Victorian Britain, Cora Kaplan; Chapter 8 Producing Erotic Children, James R. Kincaid; Chapter 9 The Right to Abortion and the Imaginary Domain, Drucilla Cornell;

Biography

Diana Fuss is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference and Identification Papers, both published by Routledge.