Antiquities Beyond Humanism
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 March 2019
- ISBN 9780198805670
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages322 pages
- Size 219x148x22 mm
- Weight 498 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The presumed dichotomy between a Greco-Roman paradigm of Western humanism and new theoretical currents in the humanities is exploded in this volume, which explores the myriad ways in which Greek and Roman philosophy and literature can be understood as foregrounding the non-human rather than simply reflecting the ideals of classical humanism.
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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.
The book is recommended reading for anyone interested in contemporary continental philosophy and the ancient world. It includes thought-provoking and surprising...openings for approaching antiquity from posthuman perspectives. The collection succeeds in showing that ancient texts are blooming with non-human life.
Table of Contents:
Frontmatter
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part 1: Posthuman Antiquities?
The Human Reconceived: Back to Socrates with Arendt
Hearing Voices: The Sounds in Socrates's Head
Song and Dance Man: Plato and the Limits of the Human
Precarious Life: Tragedy and the Posthuman
Part 2: Alternate Zoologies
Aristotle's Meta-zoology: Shared Life and Human Animality in the Politics
Sounds of Subjectivity or Resonances of Something Other
Shared Life as Chorality in Schiller, Hölderlin, and Hellenistic Poetry
Apples and Poplars, Nuts and Bulls: The Poetic Biosphere of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Part 3: Anthro-excentric
Hyperobjects, OOO, and the Eruptive Classics - Field Notes of an Accidental Tourist
Nature Trouble: Ancient Phusis and Queer Performativity
On Stoic Sympathy: Cosmobiology and the Life of Nature
Immanent Maternal: Figures of Time in Aristotle, Bergson, and Irigaray
In Light of Eros
Endmatter
Index
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