Posthumans

(Same as African American Studies CM110D.) Denaturalization of concept of human and with it uniquely western philosophical commitments that sustain imagined boundaries between human and non-human, modern and pre-modern, male and female, abled and disabled, chosen and condemned, indigenous and European, African and whiteness, religious and secular. Exploration of formation of human throughout long course of Euro-American intellectual history and its contemporary posthuman formations. Study is informed by range of theoretical work that covers meaning of modernity, liberalism, inter-species relationships, critical race theory, conceptual problems in evolutionary biology, and public health.

P/NP or letter grading.