Antiquities Beyond Humanism (Classics in Theory Series)

321 Pages·2019·1.815 MB·English

by  Emanuela Bianchi (editor), Sara Brill (editor), Brooke Holmes (editor)

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CLASSICS IN THEORY
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CLASSICS IN THEORY
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Antiquities beyond
Humanism
Editedby
Emanuela Bianchi
Sara Brill
Brooke Holmes
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■ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Antiquities beyond Humanism began life as a conference, “Posthuman
Antiquities,” that the three of us organized at New York University on
November14–15,2014.Wewouldliketothanktheoriginalparticipants
inthatconference.Wehavehadthegreatfortunetoworkwithextraor-
dinaryscholarsonthisproject,andwethankallofthemfortheirincisive
thinking, patience, and grace as this project made its way from idea to
conferencetopublication.Wearealsoindebtedtotheoriginalsponsors
for the conference without whom this project would not have been
possible: the Department of Comparative Literature at NYU, the NYU
Center for Ancient Studies, the Gallatin Fund for Classics and the
Contemporary World, the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts
and Science at Fairfield University, Global Research Initiatives of the
Office of the Provost at NYU, Postclassicisms (supported by a Global
CollaborativeNetworksFundgrantatPrincetonUniversity),theDepart-
mentofClassicsatPrinceton,theNYUCollegeofArtsandScience,the
NYU Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, the NYU
Humanities Initiative, the NYU Office of the Dean for Humanities, the
CenterfortheStudyofGenderandSexualityatNYU,theNYUDepart-
mentofPhilosophy,theNYUDepartmentofClassics,theNYUDepart-
ment of Media, Culture, and Communication, the NYU Department of
English,andtheA.S.OnassisPrograminHellenicStudiesatNYU.For
tireless organizational assistance with the conference, we thank NYU
Comparative Literature’s then Administrative Director, Kit Frick, our
assistant Elizabeth Benninger, Agata Tumilowicz for help on the day,
videographerTiffanySalone,andAnastassiaKostrioukovaforherwon-
derful conference poster and program design. We thank the three
anonymousreaderswhomadeinvaluablecommentsonthemanuscript.
DeepgratitudeisalsoduetoTimWhitmarsh,whoastheonememberof
theClassicsinTheoryeditorialteamwithdistanceontheprojectsawit
throughthevettingandeditorialprocesswithcareandprofessionalism,
and to Georgina Leighton and Charlotte Loveridge at OUP, and Lydia
ShinojatSPi,whohavesmoothedthepathtopublicationwithpanache.
The editorial assistantship of Erik Fredericksen and Malina Buturovic
has been a true sine qua non, as has Timothy Beck’s copyediting and
Cashman Kerr Prince’s indexing—we thank them all. We are truly
grateful to Allyson Vieira for the stunning cover image. Finally, we
wouldliketothankourpartners,families,andfriendsfortheirsupport
duringthemanystagesofthisproject—youknowwhoyouare.
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■ CONTENTS
LISTOFCONTRIBUTORS ix
1 Introduction 1
EmanuelaBianchi,SaraBrill,andBrookeHolmes
PART1 POSTHUMANANTIQUITIES?
2 Thehumanreconceived:backtoSocrateswithArendt 31
AdrianaCavarero
3 Hearingvoices:thesoundsinSocrates’head 47
RamonaNaddaff
4 Songanddanceman:Platoandthelimitsofthehuman 63
MichaelNaas
5 Precariouslife:tragedyandtheposthuman 77
MiriamLeonard
PART2 ALTERNATEZOOLOGIES
6 Aristotle’smeta-zoology:sharedlifeandhuman
animalityinthePolitics 97
SaraBrill
7 Soundsofsubjectivityorresonancesofsomethingother 123
KristinSampson
8 SharedlifeaschoralityinSchiller,Hölderlin,and
Hellenisticpoetry 141
MarkPayne
9 Applesandpoplars,nutsandbulls:thepoeticbiosphere
ofOvid’sMetamorphoses 159
GiuliaSissa
PART3 ANTHRO-EXCENTRIC
10 Hyperobjects,OOO,andtheeruptiveclassics—fieldnotes
ofanaccidentaltourist 189
JamesI.Porter
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11 Naturetrouble:ancientphysisandqueerperformativity 211
EmanuelaBianchi
12 OnStoicsympathy:cosmobiologyandthelifeofnature 239
BrookeHolmes
13 Immanentmaternal:figuresoftimeinAristotle,Bergson,
andIrigaray 271
RebeccaHill
14 Inlightoferos 287
ClaudiaBaracchi
INDEX 305
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■ LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
ClaudiaBaracchiisAssociateProfessorofMoralPhilosophyattheUniversityof
Milano-Bicocca,Italy.
EmanuelaBianchi is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature with affili-
ations in Classics and Gender and Sexuality Studies at New York University,
USA.
SaraBrillisProfessorofPhilosophyatFairfieldUniversity,USA.
Adriana Cavarero is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of
Verona,Italy.
RebeccaHillisSenior Lecturer inthe SchoolofMedia and Communication at
RMITUniversity,Australia.
BrookeHolmesisRobertF.GoheenProfessorintheHumanitiesandProfessorof
ClassicsatPrincetonUniversity,USA.
MiriamLeonardisProfessorofGreekLiteratureanditsReceptionatUniversity
CollegeLondon,UK.
MichaelNaasisProfessorofPhilosophyatDePaulUniversity,USA.
RamonaNaddaffisAssociateProfessorofRhetoricattheUniversityofCalifornia,
Berkeley,USA.
MarkPayneisProfessorofClassicsandtheCollegeattheUniversityofChicago,
USA.
JamesI.PorterisIrvingG.StoneProfessorinLiteratureandProfessorofRhetoric
andClassicsattheUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,USA.
KristinSampsonisAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofBergen,
Norway.
Giulia Sissa is Professor of Political Science and Classics at the University of
California,LosAngeles,USA.