Becoming Human by Chad Wellmon
Examines the crisis of a late eighteenth-century anthropology as it relates to the emergence of a modern consciousness that sees itself as condemned to draw its norms and very self-understanding from itself.“In Becoming Human, Chad Wellmon accomplishes three significant feats: he provides a genealogy of the conceptual crisis that still haunts cultural anthropology, demonstrates the complexities of the ‘Enlightenment project’ that developed a richer notion of humanity than post-Enlightenment caricatures of the autonomous cogito suggest, and puts those complexities to work in a redefinition of modernity with a critical potential that can address contemporary issues”
—John H. Smith, University of California, Irvine
Chad Wellmon is Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780271048529 |
| ISBN 10 | 0271048522 |
| Title | Becoming Human |
| Author | Chad Wellmon |
| Series | Literature And Philosophy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Year published | 2014-06-15 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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