On Ceasing to Be Human

The philosopher Stanley Cavell once asked, ?Can a human being be free of human nature?? On Ceasing to Be Human examines a number of texts and contexts, philosophical as well as literary, in which the various senses of Cavell's question might be explored and developed. During the past thirty or so years, the very concept of ?being human? has been called into question within a number of different venues-cybernetics, animal-rights theory, analytic philosophy (neurophilosophy in particular). Th...