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Biocultural Creatures: Toward a New Theory of the Human
Author: Samantha Frost
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In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging the idea of human exceptionalism as well as other theories of subjectivity that rest on a distinction between biology and culture, Frost proposes that humans are biocultural creatures who quite literally are cultured within the material, social, and symbolic worlds they inhabit. Through discussions about carbon, the functions of cell membranes, the activity of genes and proteins, the work of oxygen, and the passage of time, Frost recasts questions about the nature of matter, identity, and embodiment. In doing so, she elucidates the imbrication of the biological and cultural within the corporeal self. In remapping the relation of humans to their habitats and arriving at the idea that humans are biocultural creatures, Frost provides new theoretical resources for responding to political and environmental crises and for thinking about how to transform the ways we live. **Review Samantha Frost offers a clear, accessible, and theoretically invigorated exploration of the life sciences, demonstrating the need for a new theory of the human. (Susan Merrill Squier, author of Liminal Lives Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine) Samantha Frost has fashioned an exciting new conceptualization of human nature by creatively synthesizing a deep dive into contemporary biology with mastery of humanist theory. By explicating and analyzing biological discoveries revealing that the boundaries between DNA, self, and the environment are much more fluid than ever imagined, Biocultural Creatures builds an important bridge between the humanities and the sciences. (Gene E. Robinson, Director, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) About the Author Samantha Frost is Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender and Womens 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.
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In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging the idea of human exceptionalism as well as other theories of subjectivity that rest on a distinction between biology and culture, Frost proposes that humans are biocultural creatures who quite literally are cultured within the material, social, and symbolic worlds they inhabit. Through discussions about carbon, the functions of cell membranes, the activity of genes and proteins, the work of oxygen, and the passage of time, Frost recasts questions about the nature of matter, identity, and embodiment. In doing so, she elucidates the imbrication of the biological and cultural within the corporeal self. In remapping the relation of humans to their habitats and arriving at the idea that humans are biocultural creatures, Frost provides new theoretical resources for responding to political and environmental crises and for thinking about how to transform the ways we live. **Review Samantha Frost offers a clear, accessible, and theoretically invigorated exploration of the life sciences, demonstrating the need for a new theory of the human. (Susan Merrill Squier, author of Liminal Lives Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine) Samantha Frost has fashioned an exciting new conceptualization of human nature by creatively synthesizing a deep dive into contemporary biology with mastery of humanist theory. By explicating and analyzing biological discoveries revealing that the boundaries between DNA, self, and the environment are much more fluid than ever imagined, Biocultural Creatures builds an important bridge between the humanities and the sciences. (Gene E. Robinson, Director, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) About the Author Samantha Frost is Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender and Womens 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.
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