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By Joseph Campana,Scott Maisano

Connecting Renaissance humanism to the diversity of “critical posthumanisms” in twenty-first-century literary and cultural thought, Renaissance Posthumanism reconsiders conventional languages of humanism and the human, now not through nostalgically enshrining or triumphantly superseding humanisms prior yet relatively through revisiting and interrogating them. What if today’s “critical posthumanisms,” while they distance themselves from the long-lasting representations of the Renaissance, are in reality relocating ever toward principles in works from the fourteenth to the 17th century? What if “the human” is right now embedded and embodied in, evolving with, and de-centered amid a peculiar tangle of animals, environments, and important materiality? looking these styles of suggestion and perform, members to this assortment specialise in moments in which Renaissance humanism appears to be like retrospectively like an uncanny “contemporary”—and ally—of twenty-first-century serious posthumanism.

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