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Against human exceptionalism

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posted on 2025-07-30, 15:23 authored by Andrew Pickering
This talk explores the continuing gravitational attraction of Cartesian dualism in the humanities and social sciences, which includes an obsession with the specialness of the human, and recommends a focus on performance as an antidote that opens new spaces for scholarly enquiry.

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Written for a workshop on ‘What does it mean to be human?’ University of Exeter, 25 January 2008.

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  • Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology

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