Renaissance personhood : materiality, taxonomy, process /

Unfolding as a series of materially oriented studies ranging from chairs, machines and doors to trees, animals and food, this book retells the story of Renaissance personhood as one of material relations and embodied experience, rather than of emergent notions of individuality and freedom. The book...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Curran, Kevin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
Temas:
1500-1699
Individuality > History.
Philosophy, Renaissance.
Material culture > Europe > History > 16th century.
Material culture > Europe > History > 17th century.
Renaissance.
Individualité > Histoire.
Philosophie de la Renaissance.
Culture matérielle > Europe > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Culture matérielle > Europe > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Individuality
Material culture
Philosophy, Renaissance
Renaissance
Europe
Europa
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. What Was Personhood?, Kevin Curran
  • Part I. Materialities of Personhood: Chairs, Machines, Doors
  • 2. Daughters, Chairs, and Liberty in Margaret Cavendish's The Religious, Stephanie Elsky
  • 3. The Inner Lives of Renaissance Machines, Wendy Beth Hyman
  • 4. Two Doors: Personhood and Housebreaking in Semayne's Case and The Comedy of Errors, Colby Gordon
  • Part II. Taxonomies of Personhood: Status, Species, Race
  • 5. Should (Bleeding) Trees Have Standing?, Joseph Campana
  • 6. Aping Personhood, Holly Dugan
  • 7. Race, Personhood, and the Human in The Tempest, Amanda Bailey
  • Part III. Processes of Personhood: Eating, Lusting, Mapping
  • 8. Liquid Macbeth, David B. Goldstein
  • 9. Things in Action: Shakespeare's Sonnet 129, Macbeth, and Levinas on Shame, John Michael Archer
  • 10. Edward Herbert's Cosmopolitan State, Gregory Kneidel

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