Renaissance Posthumanism

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Connecting Renaissance humanism to the variety of "critical posthumanisms" in twenty-first-century literary and cultural theory, Renaissance Posthumanism reconsiders traditional languages of humanism and the human, not by nostalgically enshrining or triumphantly superseding humanisms past but rather by revisiting and interrogating them. What if today's "critical posthumanisms," even as they distance themselves from the iconic representations of the Renaissance, are in fact moving ever closer to ideas in works from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century? What if "the human" is at once embedded and embodied in, evolving with, and de-centered amid a weird tangle of animals, environments, and vital materiality? Seeking those patterns of thought and practice, contributors to this collection focus on moments wherein Renaissance humanism looks retrospectively like an uncanny "contemporary"-and ally-of twenty-first-century critical posthumanism.

Sujets

• Philosophy
• History of Europe
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: Fordham University Press
• Date de parution: 01 mars 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780823269587
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

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Renaissance Posthumanism

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Réàŝŝàçé ôŝûàŝ

JosephCampanaandScottMaîsano Edîtors

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Çô © 2016 ôà Ûéŝ éŝŝ

Ā ŝ éŝéé. ô à ô ŝ ûçàô à é éôûçé, ŝôé  à ééà ŝŝé, ô àŝé  à ô ô  à éàŝ—ééçôç, éçàçà, ôôçô, éçô, ô à ôé—éçé ô é qûôàôŝ  é ééŝ, ôû é ô éŝŝô ô é ûŝé.

ôà Ûéŝ éŝŝ àŝ ô éŝôŝ ô é éŝŝéçé ô àççûàç ô ÛRŝ ô ééà ô -à îéé éŝéŝ ééé ô  ŝ ûçàô à ôéŝ ô ûààéé à à çôé ô ŝûç éŝéŝ ŝ, ô  éà, àççûàé ô àôàé.

ôà Ûéŝ éŝŝ àŝô ûŝéŝ ŝ ôôŝ  à àé ô ééçôç ôàŝ. Sôé çôé à àéàŝ   à ô é àààé  ééçôç ôôŝ. Vŝ ûŝ ôé à .ôàéŝŝ.çô. à ô Çôéŝŝ Çààô--ûçàô Dàà àààé ôé à çààô.ôç.ô. é  é Ûé Sàéŝ ô Āéçà 18 17 16 5 4 3 2 1 ŝ éô

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îôûçô: Réàŝŝàçé ôŝûàŝ Joseph Campana and Scott Maîsano

Wà ôŝûàŝ îŝ’: O Hûàŝ à Hûà Eçéôàŝ  é Réàŝŝàçé Kenneth Gouwens

Tà’ŝFayîng of Marsyas: Téŝôŝ ô é Hûà à é ŝ ô à Stephen J. Campbe

Ràéàŝ’ŝ Séç Réé: Té ûàéàŝ ôGargantua Judîth Roof

Ā àûà Hŝô ô Ràŝé Hoy Dugan àà Çôéôàéŝ  Eà Môé Eà Erîca Fudge Oves et Sînguatîm: Ā Mûŝéçéŝ îéŝŝô Juîan Yates

Wôôé Āçôŝ ô é Eŝ Réàŝŝàçé Sàé Vîn Nardîzzî

Béô Hûà: Vŝûà é Séûà ô Āàà Bôŝŝé’ŝMandrake Dîane Woftha

Sàéŝéàé’ŝ Méà Eôôŝ Lara Bovîsky

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Renaissance Posthumanism

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Introduction: Renaissance Posthumanism

JosephCampanaandScottMaîsano

éé,  ŝééŝ, àŝ éé éé à éé é ô àé ŝôç ô é “é û- àéŝ” àŝ à çûçûû, ô “é ûàŝ,” ôé à ô éàç ŝ çû- çûû, àŝ à ôçàô. î éûéŝ àŝ àé àŝThe New York TîmesàThe Chronîce of Hîgher Educatîon, à à à ôéŝ  ôû é àôé ôçé çàô ô ô ààŝ é àûé ô éŝé àéàŝ ô ŝû ô ôŝé ô ûŝ à ô éàç é. Āŝ Gà Gû û   ôéé 2013, “ ‘Çŝŝ’ à  ‘éçé’ àé é ôŝ ô é à  ŝçûŝŝôŝ ô é ûàéŝ.” Té “ûàéŝ” à “é ûàŝ” àé ôûçŝ ô é Réàŝŝàçé, é ûéŝéŝ Iŝ çéàé ŝààé ôŝôŝ ô ôéŝŝôŝ ô “ûà”— àà à éôç àû ôû çàŝŝçà àûôŝ ŝûç àŝ O à Tééçé (ôŝé “Homo sum, humanî nîhî a me aîenum puto” ô “î à ûà, à ô ûà ŝ àé ô é” àé é çûçûû ŝ àé)—û à ô-  ûé ô ŝçôàŝ  é ûàéŝ àé ôé é éŝéàç àôûŝ ôà “ôŝûàŝ,” “é ôŝûà,” à “é ôŝûà- éŝ.” Tŝ ôé ôà “ôŝûàŝ” à “é ôŝûàéŝ” ôû

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