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Laughing on the Brink of Humanity

An Exercise in Epihumanism

By: Jan Miernowski

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Laughing on the Brink of Humanity

An Exercise in Epihumanism

By: Jan Miernowski

What does it mean to be human? And, more precisely, what does it mean to be human now, with both humanism and the humanities in crisis? In answer to these questions, Laughing on the Brink of Humanity seeks not some essence of the human but rather an epiphenomenal manifestation—a sign of the human. The book finds such a sign in the joyless, painful, and often deadly laughter that resonates when we cross the barrier between what is human and what is not: animality, machinery, divinity. Jan Miernowski brings together a wide swath of discourses and figures, from Plato and the Bible through early modern humanism, to Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, Hannah Arendt, Claude Lanzmann, Spike Jonze, Tom Stoppard, and Michel Houellebecq. Looking for laughter on the brink of humanity—in literature and philosophy, natural science and film, theology and computer science—the book offers an exercise in epihumanism appropriate to our posthuman age.

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413

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State University of New York Press

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ISBN 13

9798855800012

Études rabelaisiennes

Tome XLVI.

By: Jan Miernowski

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Études rabelaisiennes

Tome XLVI.

By: Jan Miernowski

Contents: J. Miernowski, La poetique du massacre de Rabelais a Racine; E. Lacore Martin, Les marginalia du volume BnF RES-G-2108 (1) et (2); A. Dickow, Remede contre fascherie? Critique de lapatheia dans le Tiers livre de Pantagruel; E. B. Hayes, A Decade of Silence: Rabelais's Return to Writing in a More Dangerous World; N. Le Cadet, Les reeditions de la Pantagrueline Prognostication et le tissage enonciatif chez Rabelais.

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150

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Librairie Droz

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ISBN 10

2600012060

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9782600012065

Hugo Grotius As Apologist for the Christian Religion

A Study of His Work De Veritate Religionis Christianae, 1640

By: Jan Paul Heering

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Hugo Grotius As Apologist for the Christian Religion

A Study of His Work De Veritate Religionis Christianae, 1640

By: Jan Paul Heering

This study presents a new analysis of the historical meaning of Grotius' apologetic work. It means to answer two chief questions: what were Grotius' motives to write this work, and what sources did he use?

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304

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BRILL

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9004137033

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9789004137035

Hugo Grotius, De imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra

Volume 2

By: Harm-Jan van Dam

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Hugo Grotius, De imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra

Volume 2

By: Harm-Jan van Dam

This first critical edition of Hugo Grotius’ most important work on church and state is based on manuscript evidence, and offers a completely new text, an extensive introduction, an English translation, a commentary, and an appendix of other relevant texts. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004120273).

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BRILL

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9004530916

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9789004530911

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Laughing on the Brink of Humanity

Laughing on the Brink of Humanity

Études rabelaisiennes

Études rabelaisiennes

Hugo Grotius As Apologist for the Christian Religion

Hugo Grotius As Apologist for the Christian Religion

Hugo Grotius, De imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra

Hugo Grotius, De imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra

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