Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Early Modern France
Author:   Chad Augustine Córdova
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
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Pages:   320
Publication Date:   30 June 2025
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Author:   Chad Augustine Córdova
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
Imprint:   Northwestern University Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780810148277


ISBN 10:   0810148277
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   30 June 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Preface: Aesthetics and Ecological Ethics  Introduction: Toward a Posthumanist Aesthetics   Chapter 1. Drawing Beyond Disegno: Of Montaigne and Leonardo  Chapter 2. Anarchic Phusis: The Spontaneous Generation of Political Bodies  Chapter 3. Grace and Beauty: The Mystical-Erotic Genesis of Aesthetics Chapter 4. The Natural-Historical Sublime: Diderot and the Ends of Landscape Chapter 5. Being Per Accidens: Rousseau, Before-Beyond “Human Ends”    Coda: Mycorrhizal-Thinking: Post-Metaphysics and the Lessons of Vegetal Beings Notes Bibliography Index

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""Córdova's philosophical call for a disinterested aesthetic response to nature, one not linked purely to human pleasure or utility, is elegant and compelling. Consequently, his book prepares us to encounter the world in a manner that distances us from our human-centered endeavors. This work navigates deftly between abstract ideas and concrete examples, not privileging one or the other but destabilizing any certitude we might have about our own worldviews."" --Kathleen Perry Long, Cornell University ""The central premise of this brilliant work of scholarship is that we would do well to return to the early modern period if we want to understand how we might find a way out of our current climate debacle. Toward a Premodern Posthumanism is a clarion call for the crucial importance of the humanities today and is one of the best books on philosophy and literature I have read in years."" --Jeffrey N. Peters, University of Kentucky


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Chad Cordova is an assistant professor of French at Cornell University. 

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