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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.
List of contents
- Frontmatter
- List of Contributors
- 1: Emanuela Bianchi, Sara Brill, and Brooke Holmes: Introduction
- Part 1: Posthuman Antiquities?
- 2: Adriana Cavarero: The Human Reconceived: Back to Socrates with Arendt
- 3: Ramona Naddaff: Hearing Voices: The Sounds in Socrates's Head
- 4: Michael Naas: Song and Dance Man: Plato and the Limits of the Human
- 5: Miriam Leonard: Precarious Life: Tragedy and the Posthuman
- Part 2: Alternate Zoologies
- 6: Sara Brill: Aristotle's Meta-zoology: Shared Life and Human Animality in the Politics
- 7: Kristin Sampson: Sounds of Subjectivity or Resonances of Something Other
- 8: Mark Payne: Shared Life as Chorality in Schiller, Hölderlin, and Hellenistic Poetry
- 9: Giulia Sissa: Apples and Poplars, Nuts and Bulls: The Poetic Biosphere of Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Part 3: Anthro-excentric
- 10: James I. Porter: Hyperobjects, OOO, and the Eruptive Classics - Field Notes of an Accidental Tourist
- 11: Emanuela Bianchi: Nature Trouble: Ancient Phusis and Queer Performativity
- 12: Brooke Holmes: On Stoic Sympathy: Cosmobiology and the Life of Nature
- 13: Rebecca Hill: Immanent Maternal: Figures of Time in Aristotle, Bergson, and Irigaray
- 14: Claudia Baracchi: In Light of Eros
- Endmatter
- Index
About the author
Emanuela 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 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 .
Sara 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 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.
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.
Summary
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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Among the volume's many virtues, I am struck in particular by the boldness among all authors in staking out interpretively ambitious stances that offer great potential reward ... the book offers occasion to rethink human positioning in light of the horrific errors regarding self-conception in our own time by returning to the ancient view of the interconnected cosmos in which the human is merely a part, and one materially dependent on the whole.
