RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 "Frankenstein" on language and becoming (post)human T2 "Frankenstein" sobre el lenguaje y la transformación en (post)humano A1 Cimatti, Felice K1 Shelley’s “monster” K1 Condillac’s statue K1 Wittgenstein “private language” K1 Lacanian “mirror stage” K1 Post human community K1 "Monstruo" de Shelley” K1 Estatua de Condillac K1 “Lenguaje privado” en Wittgenstein K1 “Estadio del espejo” de Lacan K1 “Comunidad posthumana” K1 Literatura K1 Literature K1 Medio ambiente K1 Environmental science AB The “monster” in Shelley’s Frankenstein is a body forced to become human by itself, without any help from other human beings. This process necessarily fails, because there is no humanity without sociality. The case of the “monster” is confronted with two similar cases: Condillac’s statue in Traité des sensations and Wittgenstein’s “private language” in Philosophical Investigations. What the “monster” lacks is an external social and linguistic mirror where it could recognize itself as a human being. But the “creature” is still too human to endure its new posthumancondition. The main theoretical consequences of such a hybrid state are analyzed here. In particular, the paper ends with the proposal of a tentative concept of “post human community.” PB Universidad de Alcalá SN 2171-9594 YR 2016 FD 2016-04 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/25197 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/25197 LA eng DS MINDS@UW RD 28-mar-2024