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Overview"Greco-Roman antiquity is often presumed to provide the very paradigm of humanism from the Renaissance to the present. This paradigm has been increasingly challenged by new theoretical currents such as posthumanism and the ""new materialisms"", which point toward entities, forces, and systems that pass through and beyond the human and dislodge it from its primacy as the measure of things. Antiquities beyond Humanismseeks to explode the presumed dichotomy between the ancient tradition and the twenty-first century ""turn"" by exploring the myriad ways in which Greek and Roman philosophy and literature can be understood as foregrounding the non-human. Greek philosophy in particular is filled with metaphysical explanations of the cosmos grounded in observations of the natural world, while other areas of ancient humanistic inquiry - poetry, political theory, medicine - extend into the realms of plant, animal, and even stone life, continually throwing into question the ontological status of living and non-living beings. By casting the ancient non-human or more-than-human in a new light in relation to contemporary questions of gender, ecological networks and non-human communities, voice, eros, and the ethics and the politics of posthumanism, the volume demonstrates that encounters with ancient texts, experienced as both familiar and strange, can help forge new understandings of life, whether understood as physical, psychical, divine, or cosmic." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Emanuela Bianchi (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University) , Sara Brill (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Fairfield University) , Brooke Holmes (Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics, Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics, Princeton University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.90cm Weight: 0.498kg ISBN: 9780198805670ISBN 10: 0198805675 Pages: 322 Publication Date: 27 March 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsFrontmatter List of Contributors 1: Emanuela Bianchi, Sara Brill, and Brooke Holmes: Introduction Part 1: Posthuman Antiquities? 2: Adriana Cavarero: The Human Reconceived: Back to Socrates with Arendt 3: Ramona Naddaff: Hearing Voices: The Sounds in Socrates's Head 4: Michael Naas: Song and Dance Man: Plato and the Limits of the Human 5: Miriam Leonard: Precarious Life: Tragedy and the Posthuman Part 2: Alternate Zoologies 6: Sara Brill: Aristotle's Meta-zoology: Shared Life and Human Animality in the Politics 7: Kristin Sampson: Sounds of Subjectivity or Resonances of Something Other 8: Mark Payne: Shared Life as Chorality in Schiller, Hölderlin, and Hellenistic Poetry 9: Giulia Sissa: Apples and Poplars, Nuts and Bulls: The Poetic Biosphere of Ovid's Metamorphoses Part 3: Anthro-excentric 10: James I. Porter: Hyperobjects, OOO, and the Eruptive Classics - Field Notes of an Accidental Tourist 11: Emanuela Bianchi: Nature Trouble: Ancient Phusis and Queer Performativity 12: Brooke Holmes: On Stoic Sympathy: Cosmobiology and the Life of Nature 13: Rebecca Hill: Immanent Maternal: Figures of Time in Aristotle, Bergson, and Irigaray 14: Claudia Baracchi: In Light of Eros Endmatter IndexReviewsAmong the volume's many virtues, I am struck in particular by the boldness among all authors in staking out interpretively ambitious stances that offer great potential reward ... the book offers occasion to rethink human positioning in light of the horrific errors regarding self-conception in our own time by returning to the ancient view of the interconnected cosmos in which the human is merely a part, and one materially dependent on the whole. * Colin C. Smith, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Author InformationEmanuela Bianchi is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature with affiliations in Classics and Gender and Sexuality Studies at New York University. She works at the intersection of ancient Greek philosophy and literature, French and German nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy, and feminist and queer theory. She is the author of The Feminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos (Fordham University Press, 2014), and has published numerous articles in journals including Hypatia, The Yearbook of Comparative Literature, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Philosophy Today, Epochê, and Angelaki. She is currently at work on a manuscript provisionally entitled Emergence and Concealment: Nature, Hegemony, Kinship. Sara Brill is Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University, where she has also served as Chair of the Classical Studies Program. She works on the psychology, politics, and zoology of Plato and Aristotle, as well as contemporary feminist and political theory. She is the author of Plato on the Limits of Human Life (Indiana University Press, 2013) and has published numerous articles on Plato, Aristotle, Greek tragedy, and the Hippocratic corpus. She is currently at work on a manuscript entitled Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life, forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Brooke Holmes is Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics at Princeton University. Her research centres on ancient medicine and life science, Greek literature (especially Homer and tragedy), ancient philosophy, reception studies, literary theory, and continental philosophy. She is the author of The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece (Princeton University Press, 2010) and Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy (I. B. Tauris and OUP, 2012) and has co-edited four books, including the experimental publication Liquid Antiquity (DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2017), which was accompanied by an exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens. She is currently at work on a book entitled The Tissue of the World: Sympathy and the Concept of Nature in Greco-Roman Antiquity and directs the research network Postclassicisms. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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