Antiquities Beyond Humanism (Classics in Theory Series) 1st Edition Emanuela Bianchi

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• ISBN 10: 019252822X
• ISBN 13: 9780192528223
• Author: Emanuela Bianchi 

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 understandings of life, whether understood as physical, psychical, divine, or cosmic.

Table of contents:

Part 1: Posthuman Antiquities?
2. The human reconceived: back to Socrates with Arendt
3. Hearing voices: the sounds in Socrates’ head
4. Song and dance man: Plato and the limits of the human
5. Precarious life: tragedy and the posthuman
Part 2: Alternate Zoologies
6. Aristotle’s meta-zoology: shared life and human animality in the Politics
7. Sounds of subjectivity or resonances of something other
8. Shared life as chorality in Schiller, Hölderlin, and Hellenistic poetry
9. Apples and poplars, nuts and bulls: the poetic biosphere of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Part 3: Anthro-Excentric
10. Hyperobjects, OOO, and the eruptive classics—field notes of an accidental tourist
11. Nature trouble: ancient physis and queer performativity
12. On Stoic sympathy: Cosmobiology and the life of nature
13. Immanent maternal: figures of time in Aristotle, Bergson, and Irigaray
14. In light of eros

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