In reviewing this book, my focus is on how the collection of articles articulated the basic historical sketch and/or conceptual development of this philosophical current lumped in one terminology as posthumanism/posthuman studies. This review will also serve as a summary of important arguments presented in the book.
The book contains a brief introduction, a preliminary article by Sampanikou and Stasienko entitled “Pedigrees of Posthuman Studies as an Academic Discipline and Contemporary Movements,” and three major parts: Transhumanism, Posthumanism, and Metahumanism. Each of these three parts contains various articles from renowned scholars of the field. The editors wrote a brief introductory note for each article they compiled, which provide readers with contexts and insightful overviews.
In my opinion, this book gives the impression that posthumanism has a dynamic and complex character. For one thing, I deduced from my reading that posthumanism autonomously evolves, expands, and moves in multifaceted directions, while it...
