{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"University of Minnesota Press","title":"On Nietzsche and posthumanist philosophy","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2866,"description":"Focusing on Friedrich Nietzsche’s reception of the life sciences of his day (including concerns with insects and the emergent social properties they exhibit) and his reflections on technology—research areas as central to Nietzsche’s work as they are to posthumanism—Edgar Landgraf provides fresh readings of Nietzsche and a critique of posthumanist and transhumanist philosophies in his new book, Nietzsche’s Posthumanism. Here, Landgraf is joined in conversation with Christian Emden and Stefan Herbrechter.\n\nEdgar Landgraf is distinguished research professor of German at Bowling Green State University. He is author of Nietzsche’s Posthumanism and Improvisation as Art, and coeditor of Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism and Play in the Age of Goethe.\n\nChristian Emden is Frances Moody Newman Professor at Rice University where he teaches German intellectual history and political thought. He is author of several books on Nietzsche, including Nietzsche’s Naturalism and Nietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the Body.\n\nStefan Herbrechter is former Reader in Cultural Theory at Coventry University and former professor of English and cultural studies at Heidelberg University in Germany. He is an independent scholar of critical posthumanism and author of several books including Before Humanity and Posthumanism.\n\nEpisode references:\nFriedrich Nietzsche\nCary Wolfe\nBaruch Spinoza\nJane Bennett\nAlfred Espinas\nBernard Stiegler\nErnst Kapp\nCharles Darwin\nRosi Braidotti\nFrancesca Ferrando\nPatricia MacCormack\nTamar Sharon \n\nReading list:\nVibrant Matter / Jane Bennett\nOn Animal Societies / Alfred Espinas\nNietzsche’s Animal Philosophy / Vanessa Lemm\nMeeting the Universe Halfway / Karen Barad\nNietzsche’s Naturalism / Christian J. Emden\nNietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the Body / Christian J. Emden\nHow We Became Posthuman / N. Katherine Hayles\nStaying with the Trouble / Donna Haraway\nPosthumanism / Stefan Herbrechter\nThe Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism / Arthur...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fAwENHzmp9h_PaRnnj_lblPe4NxpUbbLPc46_lIefAU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ZDM5/YzQwMzU5YTA2NTdh/MDAzOGFkZGNlNjk3/NTRjOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}