Steel Karl How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters 9781517905279

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Автор: Steel Karl
Название: How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters
ISBN: 9781517905279
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литературоведение: Классическое, раннего, высокого и позднего средневековья до 1500 г.

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ISBN-10: 1517905273
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 280
Вес: 0.38 кг.
Дата издания: 28.01.2020
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 9 b&w illustrations
Размер: 216 x 140 x 38
Ключевые слова: History of ideas,Literary studies: classical, early & medieval,Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval,PHILOSOPHY / Criticism
Подзаголовок: Pets, feral children, worms, sky burial, oysters
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts Mainstream medieval thought, like much of mainstream modern thought, habitually argued that because humans alone had language, reason, and immortal souls, all other life was simply theirs for the taking. But outside this scholarly consensus teemed a host of other ways to imagine the shared worlds of humans and nonhumans. How Not to Make a Human engages with these nonsystematic practices and thought to challenge both human particularity and the notion that agency, free will, and rationality are the defining characteristics of being human.Recuperating the Middle Ages as a lost opportunity for decentering humanity, Karl Steel provides a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of a wide range of medieval texts. Exploring such diverse topics as medieval pet keeping, stories of feral and isolated children, the ecological implications of funeral practices, and the “bare life” of oysters from a variety of disanthropic perspectives, Steel furnishes contemporary posthumanists with overlooked cultural models to challenge human and other supremacies at their roots. By collecting beliefs and practices outside the mainstream of medieval thought, How Not to Make a Human connects contemporary concerns with ecology, animal life, and rethinkings of what it means to be human to uncanny materials that emphasize matters of death, violence, edibility, and vulnerability.
Дополнительное описание: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval|European history: medieval period, middle ages|Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters, Steel Karl