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Manifestations of the Posthuman in the Postsecular Imagination

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This paper sketches out the beginnings of a conversation between two contemporary concepts in critical theory: the posthuman (or post/human) and the postsecular. They have shared origins in the critique of the assumptions that shaped Western modernity, particularly the elevation of the human subject as autonomous and self-determining, distinguished from animals, nature, and machines but also uniquely rational and unconstrained by the bounds of superstition, tradition, and religion.

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    Elaine Graham

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Graham, E. (2016). Manifestations of the Posthuman in the Postsecular Imagination. In: Hurlbut, J., Tirosh-Samuelson, H. (eds) Perfecting Human Futures. Technikzukünfte, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft / Futures of Technology, Science and Society. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11044-4_3

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