{"product_id":"9781350069503","title":"Classical Literature and Posthumanism","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eClassical Literature and Posthumanism\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Classical Literature and Posthumanism\u003c\/i\u003e … constitutes both a treasury of provocations and ultimately something more than the sum of its parts.\"  - \u003ci\u003eBryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350069503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40678770213070,"sku":"9781350069503","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_edbcd871-42f7-4f24-80e9-a0d2b0c16ed7.jpg?v=1640062862","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350069503","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}