I know that humanism is theoretically unfounded and ideologically problematic. But I desire to be human. I know that the idea of the human as the subject of a historical dialectic does not hold, but neither will I take the anti-human as the basis of philoso-phy. I seek another figure that can represent what is excluded from the human but also struggles to be human. The name I give to this inclusive exclusion, exploited by the guardians of humanity, is the proletariat. Through the lens of the excluded not-quite-human, I explore the meaning and economy of desire surrounding such not-quite-human figures as spectres that haunt the present, revenants that return from the past, and robots that point toward the uncertain position of humanity in the future.

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URN:NBN:SI:doc-CW43139F

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285306883

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10.4312/ars.20.1.97-108

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19.08.2026

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Feinberg, Joseph Grim (2026). The dialectics of the non-human non-subject. Ars et humanitas, volume 20, issue 1, str. 97-108. URN:NBN:SI:doc-CW43139F from http://www.dlib.si

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Feinberg, Joseph Grim. "The dialectics of the non-human non-subject." Ars et humanitas volume 20. issue 1 (2026) str. 97-108.
<http://www.dlib.si/?URN=URN:NBN:SI:doc-CW43139F>

Ars et humanitas
2007-
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