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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 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 and 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.
The human reconceived : back to Socrates with Arendt / Adriana Cavarero -- Hearing voices : the sounds in Socrates' head / Ramona Naddaff -- Song and dance man : Plato and the limits of the human / Michael Naas -- Precarious life : tragedy and the posthuman / Miriam Leonard -- Aristotle's meta-zoology : shared life and human animality in the Politics / Sara Brill -- Sounds of subjectivity or resonances of something other / Kristin Sampson -- Shared life as chorality in Schiller, Hölderlin, and Hellenistic poetry / Mark Payne -- Apples and poplars, nuts and bulls : the poetic biosphere of Ovid's Metamorphoses / Giulia Sissa -- Hyperobjects, 000, and the eruptive classics--field notes of an accidental tourist / James I. Porter -- Nature trouble : ancient physis and queer performativity / Emanuela Bianchi -- On Stoic sympathy : cosmobiology and the life of nature / Brooke Holmes -- Immanent maternal : figures of time in Aristotle, Bergson, and Irigaray / Rebecca Hill -- In light of Eros / Claudia Baracchi.
edited by Emanuela Bianchi, Sara Brill, Brooke Holmes.
Includes bibliographical references and index.