Antiquities Beyond Humanism

by: Bianchi, E. Brill, S. Holmes, B.

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Antiquities Beyond Humanism
Edited by Emanuela Bianchi, Sara Brill, and Brooke Holmes
Offers the first sustained engagement between the theories and methodologies of posthumanism and the "new materialisms" and ancient Greek and Roman thought
Explodes the uncritical assumption that ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and literature evince monolithic support of humanism
Draws on rigorous and ground-breaking analyses of canonical texts and thinkers to reveal how they contribute to and problematize contemporary theorizing about the human and the posthuman
Forges a new transdisciplinary path through questions pertaining to the ontological status of living beings, the political valence of gender, and the ethical agency of animals, plants, and objects
Creates a new scholarly paradigm at the intersection of antiquity and modern theory, opening up myriad new avenues for research

Description
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 Humanism seeks 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 unde

Table of Contents
Frontmatter
List of Contributors
1:Introduction, Emanuela Bianchi, Sara Brill, and Brooke Holmes
Part 1: Posthuman Antiquities?
2:The Human Reconceived: Back to Socrates with Arendt, Adriana Cavarero
3: Hearing Voices: The Sounds in Socrates's Head, Ramona Naddaff
4:Song and Dance Man: Plato and the Limits of the Human, Michael Naas
5:Precarious Life: Tragedy and the Posthuman, Miriam Leonard
Part 2: Alternate Zoologies
6:Aristotle's Meta-zoology: Shared Life and Human Animality in the Politics, Sara Brill
7:Sounds of Subjectivity or Resonances of Something Other, Kristin Sampson
8:Shared Life as Chorality in Schiller, Hölderlin, and Hellenistic Poetry, Mark Payne
9:Apples and Poplars, Nuts and Bulls: The Poetic Biosphere of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Giulia Sissa
Part 3: Anthro-excentric
10:Hyperobjects, OOO, and the Eruptive Classics - Field Notes of an Accidental Tourist, James I. Porter
11:Nature Trouble: Ancient Phusis and Queer Performativity, Emanuela Bianchi
12:On Stoic Sympathy: Cosmobiology and the Life of Nature, Brooke Holmes
13:Immanent Maternal: Figures of Time in Aristotle, Bergson, and Irigaray, Rebecca Hill
14:In Light of Eros, Claudia Baracchi
Endmatter
Index

Antiquities Beyond Humanism

by: Bianchi, E. Brill, S. Holmes, B.

• ISBN-13: 9780192845832 / 978-0-19-284583-2
• ISBN-03: 0192845837 / 0-19-284583-7
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2021

Price: 25,09 EURO

1 copy in stock