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Renaissance Posthumanism
Joseph Campana
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Description for Renaissance Posthumanism
Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 35 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: AGN; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 268 x 31. Weight in Grams: 502.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823269563
SKU
V9780823269563
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About Joseph Campana
Joseph Campana is Alan Dugald McKillop Chair and Associate Professor at Rice University. He is the author of The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity (Fordham, 2012), which won the South Central MLA Book Prize, and two collections of poetry, The Book of Faces (Graywolf, 2005) and Natural Selections (Iowa, 2012), which won the Iowa Poetry ... Read more
Reviews for Renaissance Posthumanism
This innovative book aims to point out gaps in previous studies... It examines the spread of popular knowledge in a world moved by violence and dejection, which implies a dishumanization of both the body and the human essence.
Sixteenth Century Journal
Exciting, scholarly and untimely in the best way, the essays in Renaissance Posthumanism cross-multiply history and theory ... Read more
Sixteenth Century Journal
Exciting, scholarly and untimely in the best way, the essays in Renaissance Posthumanism cross-multiply history and theory ... Read more