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1. Introduction: Posthumanism after Kant / Edgar Landgraf, Gabriel Trop, and Leif Weatherby -- I) DISSECTING THE HUMAN BODY: EMBODIMENT, COGNITION, AND THE EARLY LIFE SCIENCES. 2. Vertiginous Systems of the Soul / Jeffrey West Kirkwood, Binghamton University, USA ; 3. Brain Matters in the German Enlightenment: Animal Cognition and Species Difference in Herder, Soemmerring, and Gall Patrick Fortmann, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA ; 4. Agency without Humans: Normativity and Path Dependence in the 19th-Century Life Sciences / Christian J. Emden, Rice University, USA ; 5. Embodied Phantasy: Johannes Müller and the 19th-Century Neurophysiological Foundations of Critical Posthumanism / Edgar Landgraf, Bowling Green State University, USA -- II) WHO'S AFRAID OF IDEALISM? MATERIALISM, POSTHUMANISM, AND THE POST-KANTIAN LEGACY. 6. Kant and Posthumanism / Carsten Strathausen, University of Missouri, USA ; 7. Intimations of the Posthuman: Kant's Natural Beauty / Peter Gilgen, Cornell University, USA ; 8. Farewell to Ontology: Hegel after Humanism / Leif Weatherby, New York University, USA ; 9. Steps to an Ecology of Geist: Hegel, Bateson, and the Spirit of Posthumanism / John H. Smith, UC Irvine, USA ; 10. Protecting Natural Beauty from Humanism's Violence: The Healing Effects of Alexander von Humboldt's Naturgem lde Elizabeth Millán, DePaul University, USA -- III) CYBORG ENLIGHTENMENT: BOUNDARIES OF THE (POST)HUMAN AROUND 1800. 11. Posthumanist Thinking in the Work of Heinrich von Kleist / Tim Mehigan, University of Queensland, Australia ; 12. Positing the Robotic Self: From Fichte to Ex Machina / Alex Hogue, Coastal Carolina University, USA ; 13. In Defense of Humanism: Envisioning a Posthuman Future and Its Critique in Goethe's Faust / Christian P. Weber, Florida State University, USA ; 14. Beyond Death: Posthuman Perspectives in Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland's Macrobiotics / Jocelyn Holland, California Institute of Technology, USA ; 15. The Indifference of the Inorgan