Riccardo Baldissone

Autós

Individuation in the European Text

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Autós traces and reassesses the European construction of individuals from ancient Greece to the present in major literary, philosophical, juridical, scientific, and political texts.

Produktdetails

• Experiments/On the Political
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781786606754
• ISBN-10: 1786606755
• Artikelnr.: 58409940

Autorenporträt

Riccardo Baldissone is a Fellow at the University of Westminster, School of Law. He has published a number of articles in Diaspora, Law and Literature, Literature and Human Rights and Labour History in the New Century. He has a forthcoming monograph "Farewell to Freedom: The Path of Liberty and Beyond" with University of Westminster Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: Of Wounds and Woundings: Damages to the Relational Body
Chapter Two: The Invention of the Modern Self between Hay and Robinson
Chapter Three: The Fundamentalist Reinvention of the Individual in the Age
of Reformation and its Discontents
Chapter Four: Painted, Mirrored, and Mystical Bodies: A Medieval
Proliferation
Chapter Five: A New Interiority in Christian Romania
Chapter Six: Roman Legal Actors: The Ordered Permutation of Personae
Chapter Seven: Keys to Greek Individuation
Chapter Eight: Greek Early Theoretical Bottlenecks and their Homeric
Horizon
Chapter Nine: Not Just Autos: The Reinvention of Abundance
Epilogue: Provincializing the Individual
Conclusion
Appendix: A Note on Paradigms
Bibliography
Index