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Introduction: Humanisms, Posthumanisms, and their Discontents
Chapter 1: Market Humans: Homo Oeconomicus, Entrepreneurs, and Beings of Risk
Chapter 2: Utilitarian Humanism: Culture in the Service of Regulating “We Other Humans”
Chapter 3: The Hedge Fund of Reality: Ontology and Financial Derivatives
Chapter 4: Human Rights and States of Emergency: Humanitarians and Governmentality
Chapter 5: Translating Rights: The International Criminal Court, Translation and the Human Status
Chapter 6: Speculative Fictions and Other Cartographies of Life with Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story
Chapter 7: Between Words, Numbers, and Things: Transgenics and Other Objects of Life in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddams
Chapter 9: Reification of the Human: Global Organ Harvesting and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
Conclusion: Ahumans: A Guide to Non-Market Living

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 03/07/2018
      ISBN13: 9780823280308, 978-0823280308
      ISBN10: 0823280306
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Humanisms, Posthumanisms, and their Discontents
      Chapter 1: Market Humans: Homo Oeconomicus, Entrepreneurs, and Beings of Risk
      Chapter 2: Utilitarian Humanism: Culture in the Service of Regulating “We Other Humans”
      Chapter 3: The Hedge Fund of Reality: Ontology and Financial Derivatives
      Chapter 4: Human Rights and States of Emergency: Humanitarians and Governmentality
      Chapter 5: Translating Rights: The International Criminal Court, Translation and the Human Status
      Chapter 6: Speculative Fictions and Other Cartographies of Life with Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story
      Chapter 7: Between Words, Numbers, and Things: Transgenics and Other Objects of Life in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddams
      Chapter 9: Reification of the Human: Global Organ Harvesting and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
      Conclusion: Ahumans: A Guide to Non-Market Living

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