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1. Introduction: Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism Edgar Landgraf, Leif Weatherby, and Gabriel Trop I) DISSECTING THE HUMAN BODY: EMBODIMENT, COGNITION, AND THE EARLY LIFE SCIENCES 2. The Vertiginous System of the Soul Jeffrey Kirkwood, Binghamton University, USA 3. Embodiment and Phantasy: Johannes Muller reading Goethe Edgar Landgraf, Bowling Green State University, USA 4. Biological Agency in a Human World: Lessons from the 19th-Century Life Sciences Christian J. Emden, Rice University, USA 5. The Aesthetic and Political Implications of Alexander von Humboldt's Presentation of Nature Elizabeth Millan, DePaul University, USA II) WHO'S AFRAID OF IDEALISM? MATERIALISM, POSTHUMANISM, AND THE POST-KANTIAN LEGACY 6. Kant and Posthumanism Carsten Strathausen, University of Missouri, USA 7. Natural Beauty: Intimations of the Posthuman in Kant Peter Gilgen, Cornell University, USA 8. Goethe's Presaging Critique of Posthumanism in Faust Christian Weber, Florida State University, USA 9. Farewell to Ontology: German Idealism after Humanism Leif Weatherby, New York University, USA 10. Steps to an Ecology of Geist? John H. Smith, UC Irvine, USA 11. From Hegel's Phenomenologie des Geistes to Musil's Mann ohne Eigenschaften: Toward a Critique of Posthumanism Tim Mehigan, University of Queensland, Australia III) CYBORG ENLIGHTENMENT: BOUNDARIES OF THE (POST-)HUMAN AROUND 1800 12. Species Cognition in Early Phrenology Patrick Fortmann, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA 13. Extending the Human from a Posthuman Perspective: Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland's Macrobiotics Jocelyn Holland, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA 14. Positing the Robotic Ich: From Fichte to Artificial Intelligence Alex Hogue, University of Cincinnati, USA 15. Goethe, Schelling, and Inorganic Paradoxicality Gabriel Trop, University of North Carolina, USA Index