{"product_id":"9781350536104","title":"The Hysterical Sublime : Humanism in the Age of Posthuman Capitalism by Matthew Flisfeder","description":"Developing the concept of the hysterical  sublime, first theorised by Fredric  Jameson, to challenge posthumanist  perspectives on the Anthropocene, this  book facilitates the rethinking of universal  and dialectical humanism as concepts for  grappling with 21st-century capitalism. In recent years, posthumanist theories  have been concerned with the  overlapping dilemmas of global climate  change, digital automation, and artificial  intelligence, corresponding to the age  of the Anthropocene. Matthew Flisfeder  explores how the fear of technology  becomes, for Jameson, a substitute for  the fears of the capitalist system, and  shows that posthumanism displaces such fears onto the figure of the human  and anthropocentrism. Drawing on  Hegelian-Lacanian theory, the book  argues that to rethink dialectical  humanism requires moving past the  historicist versions of Marxist humanism  that imagine a complete reconciliation  with non-human nature that includes a  process of dis-alienation. Flisfeder also  studies posthumanism's \"performative  contradiction\" of dismissing humanism  while at the same time depending on the  very concepts that constitute the core  of humanist thought: freedom, equality,  responsibility, and autonomy.   Through the concept of the hysterical  sublime, this book argues that, not only  is anthropocentrism and humanism  the unconscious core of posthumanist  theory; emancipatory politics must take  ownership of this perspective and renew  universalist and dialectical humanism as  the core of the political project resistant  to capitalism and the Capitalocene.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297687712117,"sku":"9781350536104","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350536104.jpg?v=1762781295","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781350536104","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}