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(2012) Posthumanist Shakespeares, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
"A passion so strange, outrageous, and so variable"
the invention of the inhuman in the Merchant of Venice
Stefan Herbrechter
pp. 41-57
Historically speaking, there is uncertainty if and when posthumanism started or when we became posthuman.1 Conceptually, however, it is quite inevitable that with the "invention of the human" the posthuman as one of his or her "others' also becomes thinkable, representable, possible, necessary etc. As soon as some form of humanitas begins to characterize the species as a whole, non-human (un-, in-, pre- or posthuman) others start proliferating and the process of inclusion, exclusion and differentiation is set in motion.2
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Herbrechter, S. (2012)., "A passion so strange, outrageous, and so variable": the invention of the inhuman in the Merchant of Venice, in S. Herbrechter & I. Callus (eds.), Posthumanist Shakespeares, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 41-57.
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