Antiquities Beyond Humanism Marlene M. Corton intriguing vignettes

intriguing vignettes

This book collects ancient and modern inventions

path where they are encouraged to see the connections between ideas

It submits that the main motivations for replacing an ontology of substances with one of processes are to be found in the empirical findings of science

Antiquities Beyond Humanism Marlene M. Corton intriguing vignettesGreco 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