Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

Unraveling

Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age

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Produktbeschreibung

"Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781517909147
• ISBN-10: 1517909147
• Artikelnr.: 60000211

Autorenporträt

Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer is associate professor of anthropology at Binghamton University. He is author of The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life and Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology (both from Minnesota).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface: Blind-Man-and-World
Introduction: Let’s Build a New Nervous System
1. Neurological Subjectivity: How Neuroscience Makes and Unmakes People
through Neurological Disorder
2. Symbolic Subjectivity: How Psychoanalysis and the Communication of
Meaning Disable Individuals
3. Materialist Subjectivity: How Technology and Material Environments Make
Personhood Possible
4. Cybernetic Subjectivity: The Fusion of Body, Symbol, and Environment in
the Facilitated Person
5. Facilitated Subjectivity, Affective Bioethics, and the Nervous System
Epilogue: Living and Dying in the Nervous System 
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index