Life in the Grotto: Montaigne & the Meaning of Posthumanism

IF 0.5 4区历史学 0 MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES

Exemplaria-Medieval Early Modern Theory Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI:10.1080/10412573.2023.2237831

Chad Córdova

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ABSTRACT This article delineates two principles of the grotesque in Renaissance visual art, texts, and garden grottoes, one more superficial and one more radical. In sixteenth-century Europe, the latter mode finds its most striking manifestation in the Essays (1580–95) of Michel de Montaigne. The Essays offer a paradigm for grotesque thinking, one that crucially inflects contemporary ideas on the potentialities, and aporias, of posthumanist theory, life, and ethics. Grotesque ornaments, garden grottoes, and the essay à la Montaigne are here reread as provocative object lessons for bringing into focus the difference between a superficial and a constitutive posthumanism still to come.

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Exemplaria-Medieval Early Modern Theory MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： The first issue of Exemplaria, with an article by Jacques Le Goff, was published in 1989. Since then the journal has established itself as one of the most consistently interesting and challenging periodicals devoted to Medieval and Renaissance studies. Providing a forum for different terminologies and different approaches, it has included symposia and special issues on teaching Chaucer, women, history and literature, rhetoric, medieval noise, and Jewish medieval studies and literary theory. The Times Literary Supplement recently included a review of Exemplaria and said that "it breaks into new territory, while never compromising on scholarly quality".