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    Posthumanism in the age of Humanism: mind, matter, and the life sciences after Kant.Edgar Landgraf (ed.) - 2018 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
    The literary and scientific renaissance that struck Germany around 1800 is usually taken to be the cradle of contemporary humanism. Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism shows how figures like Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe as well as scientists specializing in the emerging modern life and cognitive sciences not only established but also transgressed the boundaries of the “human.” This period so broadly painted as humanist by proponents and detractors alike also grappled with ways of challenging some of humanism's (...)
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    Circling the Archimedean Viewpoint: Observations of Physiology in Nietzsche and Luhmann.Edgar Landgraf - 2014 - Substance 43 (3):88-106.
    The question of how our conception of the world could differ so widely from the disclosed nature of the world will with perfect equanimity be relinquished to the physiology and history of the evolution of organisms and concepts.In an interview conducted by the Italian literary journal Alfabeta in April of 1987,1 Niklas Luhmann was asked if sociology, in particular its systems-theoretical variant, could replace the privileged position that art, religion, philosophy, and politics had lost, and provide an Archimedean point from (...)
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    The Archimedean Point: From Fixed Positions to the Limits of Theory.Jocelyn Holland & Edgar Landgraf - 2014 - Substance 43 (3):3-11.
    There is no authoritative biography of Archimedes, but there are moments from his life which, apocryphal or not, have become the stuff of legend. These include accounts of Archimedes running naked through the streets after realizing that his body displaces water in the bath , how he sat musing over diagrams in the sand as sword-bearing Romans descended upon him during a siege of Syracuse, and of course, his mechanically-informed claim that a firm resting place is all he would need (...)
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    Nietzsche’s Entomology: Insect Sociality and the Concept of the Will.Edgar Landgraf - 2021 - Nietzsche Studien 50 (1):275-299.
    The article traces Nietzsche’s references to insects in his published and unpublished writings against the backdrop of his study of the entomological research of his time (esp. through his reading of Alfred Espinas’s Die thierischen Gesellschaften). The first part of the article explores how Nietzsche’s entomology allows us to add a posthumanist perspective to the more familiar poststructuralist readings of Nietzsche, as the entomological research he consulted offered him a model for understanding how rudimentary processes can lead to the formation (...)
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    Nietzsche's posthumanism.Edgar Landgraf - 2023 - Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
    Nietzsche's Posthumanism explores the continuities and disagreements between Nietzsche's philosophy and contemporary posthumanism. Focusing specifically on Nietzsche's reception of the life sciences of his day and his reflections on technology, Edgar Landgraf provides both fresh readings of Nietzsche and a critique of post- and transhumanist philosophies.
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