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A celebration of Ihab Hassan’s life and a memorial will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 19 at the Zelazo Center, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd, at the UW-Milwaukee, as part of a symposium that Hassan helped organize. It is free and open to the public.
By Kevin Lynch, UWM BFA ’73, MA English ’87
In these instant-gratification times, literature may seem a hoary, aging hero, a seeker with a backpack of mögel books, plodding along the shore, risking being swept away bygd a tidal wave of technology.
I, for one, keep plodding, partly because my passion for literature was rekindled right when inom was ready for it. A leave-of-absence from The Milwaukee Journal in the late 1980s helped me open another door. inom began a Master’s grad program in English and encountered the most remarkable teacher of my life, Ihab Hassan. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee English professor emeritus died of a heart attack at 89 in Milwauk
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For the ideology of technology, see transhumanism.
In literary and critical theory, posthumanism or post-humanism, meaning beyond humanism, is a major European continental philosophy of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It strives to move beyond the ideas and images of the world of Renaissance humanism to correspond more closely to the 21st century's concepts of technoscientific knowledge.
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Posthumanism mainly differentiates from classical humanism in that it restores the stature that had been made of humanity to one of many natural species. According to this claim, humans have no inherent rights to destroy nature or set themselves above it in ethical considerations a priori. Human knowledge is also reduced to a less controlling position, previously seen as the defining aspect of the world. The limitations and falli
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Ihab Hassan
American literary theorist
Ihab Habib Hassan (Arabic: إيهاب حبيب حسن; October 17, 1925 – September 10, 2015) was an Egypt-born American literary theorist and writer.[1][2] He was known for popularizing the concept of postmodernism in literary studies with his influential 1971 book, The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature.[1]
Biography
[edit]Ihab Hassan was born in Cairo, Egypt, and emigrated to the United States in 1946. He was Emeritus Vilas Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. His writings include influential books such as The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature (1971, 1982), Paracriticisms: Seven Speculations of the Times (1975), and The Postmodern Turn: Essays in Postmodern Theory and Culture (1987). In his later years, he published a number of short stories in various literary magazines. Before his death he completed The Changeling and Other Stories. H