02854cam a2200457M 4500 9781003498728 FlBoTFG 20251030122255.0 m o d cr |n||||||||| 241226s2025 xx o 0|| 0 eng d OCoLC-P eng OCoLC-P 9781040277201 (electronic bk.) 1040277209 (electronic bk.) 9781003498728 (electronic bk.) 1003498728 (electronic bk.) 9781040277195 (electronic bk. : PDF) 1040277195 (electronic bk. : PDF) 103281229X 9781032812298 10.4324/9781003498728 doi (OCoLC)1479525150 (OCoLC-P)1479525150 B825 SOC 026040 bisacsh PHI 040000 bisacsh POL 042060 bisacsh JHB bicssc Boysen, Benjamin. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjDHvhBCwYFCpgb8kDt7pP 95249 EMBARRASSMENT OF BEING HUMAN [electronic resource] : a critical essay on the new materialisms and modernity in an age of... crisis. [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2025. 1 online resource With the message that everything in a sense is alive, thus allowing us to join forces with new politico-ethical communities stretching across human and nonhuman realms, the new materialisms have captivated the minds of many academics, artists, and intellectuals by stressing that it is time to return to a premodern mindset and discard modernity and its concepts of secularization, autonomy, and finitude. The Embarrassment of Being Human not only demonstrates how these magical materialisms are beset by grave theoretical and practical inconsistencies and self-contradictions. It also demonstrates how their demand for humans to step down and allow for an emancipation of things qualifies the new materialisms as a metaphysics of neoliberalism that reproduces and fortifies the self-contradictions rampant in the current neoliberal hegemony. While helping us to gain a comprehensive understanding of the tenets of the eerie ills of our epoch, the critique of the new materialisms can furthermore inspire us to appreciate how the exact inversion of the new materialist complex amounts to a revitalization of the modern project. A revitalization that is critical to think our epoch differently. OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. Materialism. 40395 Taylor & Francis https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003498728 OCLC metadata license agreement http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf E-Books 68014 68014