{"product_id":"toward-a-premodern-posthumanism-chad-augustine-crdova-9780810148277","title":"Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Early Modern France","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawing on early modern French thought to free nature and aesthetics from metaphysical hum\u003c\/b\u003eanism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e What good is aesthetics in an age of ecological crisis? Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Early Modern France draws on deconstructive, ecological, and biopolitical theories to interrogate the potentiality that philosophical aesthetics contains for challenging the ontological capture of \"nature\" by the human subject. Chad C?rdova uncovers in aesthetics something irreducible to the subject: an account of how beings emerge and are interrelated, responsive, and even response-able without reason. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Constructing multitemporal constellations of texts that bring forth the untimely relevance of pre-1800 modes of writing, science, and art, C?rdova charts a new, premodern trajectory of posthumanism. This anarchic and atelic ontology, recovered from Kant, becomes the guiding thread for a new trajectory of posthumanist thought. This capacious study traces this trajectory from Aristotle to Heidegger and on to contemporary plant-thinking, circling back through Montaigne, Pascal, Diderot, Rousseau, and others along the way. This is a defense and an illustration of the importance of rereading early modern texts as a means of rethinking nature, art, and humanity in a time when these concepts are in flux and more contentious than ever. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chad Augustine C?rdova\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810148277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810148277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Chad Augustine C?rdova","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46618110886143,"sku":"9780810148277","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_245f2124-435a-4299-8e06-9ad299dda252.jpg?v=1740069196","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/toward-a-premodern-posthumanism-chad-augustine-crdova-9780810148277","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}