Antiquities Beyond Humanism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Emanuela Bianchi, Sara Brill, Brooke Holmes, New York University) Bianchi, Emanuela (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Fairfield University) Brill, Sara (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University) Holmes, Brooke (Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics, Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-03-27
Mått148 x 219 x 22 mm
Vikt498 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieClassics in Theory Series
Antal sidor322
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198805670

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Emanuela 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.

FrontmatterList of Contributors1: Emanuela Bianchi, Sara Brill, and Brooke Holmes: IntroductionPart 1: Posthuman Antiquities?2: Adriana Cavarero: The Human Reconceived: Back to Socrates with Arendt3: Ramona Naddaff: Hearing Voices: The Sounds in Socrates's Head4: Michael Naas: Song and Dance Man: Plato and the Limits of the Human5: Miriam Leonard: Precarious Life: Tragedy and the PosthumanPart 2: Alternate Zoologies6: Sara Brill: Aristotle's Meta-zoology: Shared Life and Human Animality in the Politics7: Kristin Sampson: Sounds of Subjectivity or Resonances of Something Other8: Mark Payne: Shared Life as Chorality in Schiller, Hölderlin, and Hellenistic Poetry9: Giulia Sissa: Apples and Poplars, Nuts and Bulls: The Poetic Biosphere of Ovid's MetamorphosesPart 3: Anthro-excentric10: James I. Porter: Hyperobjects, OOO, and the Eruptive Classics - Field Notes of an Accidental Tourist11: Emanuela Bianchi: Nature Trouble: Ancient Phusis and Queer Performativity12: Brooke Holmes: On Stoic Sympathy: Cosmobiology and the Life of Nature13: Rebecca Hill: Immanent Maternal: Figures of Time in Aristotle, Bergson, and Irigaray14: Claudia Baracchi: In Light of ErosEndmatterIndex