{"product_id":"renaissance-personhood-kevin-curran-9781474448086","title":"Renaissance Personhood: Materiality, Taxonomy, Process","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExplores the history and theory of personhood in the Renaissance period\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers the first sustained study of the history and theory of personhood in the Renaissance period\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a study of personhood from a materialist perspective\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eModels new way of entering posthumanist critique - animal studies, ecocriticism, and food studies - into conversation with legal theory, cultural history, and literary studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnfolding 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 assembles an international team of leading scholars to formulate a new account of personhood in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one that starts with the objects, environments and physical processes that made personhood legible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin Curran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474448089\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474448086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Kevin Curran","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43935514657023,"sku":"9781474448086","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b3d3a780-a2b1-4862-9cdd-b5aae659e6d4.jpg?v=1681420239","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/renaissance-personhood-kevin-curran-9781474448086","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}