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Classical Literature and Posthumanism (Hardcover)
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Classical Literature and Posthumanism (Hardcover)
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The subject of the posthuman, of what it means to be or to cease to
be human, is emerging as a shared point of debate at large in the
natural and social sciences and the humanities. This volume asks
what classical learning can bring to the table of posthuman
studies, assembling chapters that explore how exactly the human
self of Greek and Latin literature understands its own relation to
animals, monsters, objects, cyborgs and robotic devices. With its
widely diverse habitat of heterogeneous bodies, minds, and selves,
classical literature again and again blurs the boundaries between
the human and the non-human; not to equate and confound the human
with its other, but playfully to highlight difference and
hybridity, as an invitation to appraise the animal, monstrous or
mechanical/machinic parts lodged within humans. This comprehensive
collection unites contributors from across the globe, each delving
into a different classical text or narrative and its configuration
of human subjectivity-how human selves relate to other entities
around them. For students and scholars of classical literature and
the posthuman, this book is a first point of reference.
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