Autos - Individuation in the European Text

Autós traces and reassesses the European construction of individuals from ancient Greece to the present in major literary, philosophical, juridical, scientific, and political texts.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter One: Of Wounds and Woundings: Damages to the Relational Body

Chapter Two: The Invention of the Modern Self between Hay and Robinson

Chapter Three: The Fundamentalist Reinvention of the Individual in the Age of Reformation and its Discontents

Chapter Four: Painted, Mirrored, and Mystical Bodies: A Medieval Proliferation

Chapter Five: A New Interiority in Christian Romania

Chapter Six: Roman Legal Actors: The Ordered Permutation of Personae

Chapter Seven: Keys to Greek Individuation

Chapter Eight: Greek Early Theoretical Bottlenecks and their Homeric Horizon

Chapter Nine: Not Just Autos: The Reinvention of Abundance

Epilogue: Provincializing the Individual

Conclusion

Appendix: A Note on Paradigms

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Riccardo Baldissone is a Fellow at the University of Westminster, School of Law. He has published a number of articles in Diaspora, Law and Literature, Literature and Human Rights and Labour History in the New Century. He has a forthcoming monograph "Farewell to Freedom: The Path of Liberty and Beyond" with University of Westminster Press.

Summary

This book traces the genealogy of the Western political subject in major literary, philosophical, juridical and political texts.

Product details

• Authors: Riccardo Baldissone
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781786606754
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-675-4
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Experiments/On the Political
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Colonialism & imperialism, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Colonialism and imperialism, Political science and theory