Frost Biocultural Creatures

Toward a New Theory of the Human
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7435-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

In Biocultural Creatures Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to create a new theory of the human that explains the mutual constitution of the body, environment, biology, and habitat, while offering new resources for responding to political and environmental crises.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frost, Samantha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. Carbon 31

2. Membranes 53

3. Proteins 77

4. Oxygen 101

5. Time 119

Conclusion 147

Notes 161

References 167

Index 183

Über Autor(innen)

Samantha Frost is Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the coeditor of New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, also published by Duke University Press, and the author of Lessons from a Materialist Thinker: Hobbesian Reflections on Ethics and Politics.