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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 Humanismseeks 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.
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
