{"product_id":"antiquities-beyond-humanism-9780198805670","title":"Antiquities Beyond Humanism","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\u003cbr\u003ethat pass through and beyond the human and dislodge it from its primacy as the measure of things. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eAntiquities beyond Humanism\u003c\/em\u003eÂseeks 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\u003cbr\u003efilled 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\u003cbr\u003estatus 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\u003cbr\u003eencounters with ancient texts, experienced as both familiar and strange, can help forge new understandings of life, whether understood as physical, psychical, divine, or cosmic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emanuela Bianchi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198805670\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmanuela Bianchi, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University\u003c\/em\u003e, Sara Brill, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Philosophy, Fairfield University\u003c\/em\u003e, Brooke Holmes, \u003cem\u003eRobert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics, Princeton University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmanuela Bianchi is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Feminine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSymptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos\u003c\/em\u003e (Fordham University Press, 2014), and has published numerous articles in journals including \u003cem\u003eHypatia\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Yearbook of Comparative Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy Today\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEpoche\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAngelaki\u003c\/em\u003e. She is currently at work on a\u003cbr\u003emanuscript provisionally entitled \u003cem\u003eEmergence and Concealment: Nature, Hegemony, Kinship\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSara Brill is Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University. 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 \u003cem\u003ePlato on the Limits of Human Life\u003c\/em\u003e (Indiana University Press, 2013) and has published\u003cbr\u003enumerous articles on Plato, Aristotle, Greek tragedy, and the Hippocratic corpus. She is currently at work on a manuscript entitled \u003cem\u003eAristotle on the Concept of Shared Life\u003c\/em\u003e, forthcoming with Oxford University Press. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrooke 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\u003cbr\u003ephilosophy. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece\u003c\/em\u003e (Princeton University Press, 2010) and \u003cem\u003eGender: Antiquity and its Legacy\u003c\/em\u003e (I. B. Tauris and OUP, 2012) and has co-edited four books, including the experimental publication \u003cem\u003eLiquid\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAntiquity\u003c\/em\u003e (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 \u003cem\u003eThe Tissue of the World: Sympathy and the Concept of Nature in Greco-Roman Antiquity\u003c\/em\u003e and directs the research network\u003cbr\u003ePostclassicisms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39932110241907,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_78ff5d80-1c63-493b-be20-18dab2b6eb2a.jpg?v=1647790213","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/antiquities-beyond-humanism-9780198805670","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}