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2024, Black Classicism - Moving Forward, Boston University
Jean-Paul Sartre begins his preface to Frantz Fanon’s anticolonial classic, The Wretched of the Earth, with these memorable words: “Not so very long ago, the earth numbered two thousand million inhabitants: five hundred million men, and one thousand five hundred million natives. The former had the Word; the others had the use of it.” Through readings of the anticolonial and decolonial Caribbean intellectuals Sylvia Wynter, C. L. R. James, and Frantz Fanon, and building on the work of the Critical Ancient World Studies collective, I suggest that repertoires of Greek and Roman antiquity constitute ‘the Word’ which has served to separate Eurocentric constructions of ‘Man’ from the rest of the world’s populations. By centering the human, rather than the Man of classical humanism, I hope to work towards a more capacious humanism – one which embraces more-than-Man – at the same time as undermining the colonial foundations of the study of the ancient world.
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Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism brings together scholars working in prehistoric, classical, medieval, and early modern studies who are developing, from longer and slower historical perspectives, critical post/humanisms that explore: 1) the significance (historical, sociocultural, psychic, etc.) of human expression and affectivity; 2) the impact of technology and new sciences on what it means to be a human self; 3) the importance of art and literature in defining and enacting human selves; 4) the importance of history in defining the human; 5) the artistic plasticity of the human; 6) the question of a human collectivity—what is the value, and peril, of “being human” or “being post/human” together?; and finally, 7) the constructive, and destructive, relations (aesthetic, historical, and philosophical) of the human to the nonhuman. This volume, edited by Myra Seaman and Eileen A. Joy, insists on the always provisional and contingent formations of the human, and of vario...
A defining term for the Renaissance, " the human " is today a perilous term. But is it still a useful one—or is its intellectual history in early modernity too fraught, too deeply implicated in critiques of anthropocentrism? This essay argues for a reap-praisal of " humanism " as a philosophical tradition and suggests how the history of " the human " in the early modern period already contains its postmodern and posthumanist unraveling. As a humanist's humanist, Spenser plays a key, emblematic role in this history as his careful and sparing use of the term " human " in its various forms points to the idea of humanity as a boundary condition, a description of a limit. The essay concludes with a reflection on the continued importance of humanist modes of reading through an understanding of the text's own agency.
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