The New Human in Literature

Mads Rosendahl Thomsen is Professor with Special Responsibilities in Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and Transnational Literature (2008), The New Human in Literature: Posthuman Visions of Changes in Body, Mind and Society (2013), and the editor of several volumes, including World Literature: A Reader (2012) and The Posthuman Condition: Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics of Biotechnological Challenges (2012). He is a member of the Academia Europaea and an advisory board member of the Institute for World Literature.

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part 1 The Triune Human

1 A Systemic View of the Human
2 An Emerging Cultural History of the Twentieth Century
3 History, Technique, Imagination
4 The New Human and the Medium of Literature

Part 2 Self-modernization

5 Virginia Woolf
6 William Carlos Williams
7 Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Part 3 The Grand Projects

8 Chinua Achebe
9 Mo Yan
10 Orhan Pamuk

Part 4 The Final Frontier

11 Literature as Lab
12 Don DeLillo
13 Michel Houellebecq

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index