Posthumanism and Phenomenology

The Treatment of Boredom in Heidegger and Insomnia in Levinas.- Modulation to a New Key in The Syntax of Time: Peter Byrne Manchester and Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's Common Telos of the All.- From Boredom to a Posthumanist Fulfillment.- Experiencing Boredom: A Phenomenological Analysis.- Sloterdijk and Heidegger on the Question of Humanism.- The Growing Solitude of the Body.- Somatic Dissection and the Journey of Animal-being.- "Strange Kinship": Romantic-era Women Writers and the Posthuman.- The Distance of the Exotic: Bullough's Idea of Psychical Distance from the Perspective of Levinas's Concept of the Aesthetic.- Torture Acts: Inclusion and Exclusion in Katherine Dunn's Geek Love.- Humor and Amusement Based on Incongruities: A Dialectical Approach.- The Meaning of Solitude/Loneliness/Isolation in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God.- Epistemic Ecology and Ben Okri's "diminishingboundaries of a shrinking world" in "Heraclitus' Golden River" from Wild (2012).- Death and the Absence of Others: A Narratological Investigation of Death and Solitude.- An Apology for Abstraction in an Age of High Definition and Photo Realism in the Work of Kandinsky and The White Shaman Rock Art Panel and Related Rock Art Sites.- On Tragic Feeling and Human Weakness.

Calley A. Hornbuckle is an Associate Professor of English in the School of Liberal Arts at Dalton State College, Georgia. Her scholarship focuses on British women writers and the environmental tradition.She has published on Anna Letitia Barbauld's ecological sensibility and presented several papers on ecological intelligence in the works of Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Beatrix Potter. Currently, she is investigating Mary Robinson's investigations of ethics, ethology, and aesthetics in light of recent developments in neuroscience and embedded cognition. She also serves as an executive editor for The Explicator.
Dr. Hornbuckle has presented at the World Phenomenology Institute on numerous occasions.
Jadwiga S. Smith is emerita Professor of English at Bridgewater State University where she has worked for 32 years. She earned two master's degrees in European and Slavic literatures from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, where she developed an early interest in phenomenology. Graduate studies took Dr. Smith to Duquesne University, where she earned a Ph.D. in English literature; she wrote herdissertation on the phenomenology of Roman In garden and its application to the stage play. She has continued to publish countless scholarly articles on phenomenology, literary theory, and drama in the Analecta Husserliana, the Phenomenological Inquiry, and other journals.
In the early 1980s, Dr. Smith began working with Dr. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and became a major collaborator in the World Phenomenology Institute. After Dr. Tymieniecka's death, Dr. Smith became the WPI President for the American Division. She continues this important work today, organizing and administering conferences, conducting and leading conferences, and editing volumes of theAnalecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research. Dr. Smith remains a vital, enthusiastic, inspiring link in the World Phenomenology Institute where she encourages