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Renaissance non‐humanism: plants, animals, machines, matter
Author(s) -
Curran Kevin
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
renaissance studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1477-4658
pISSN - 0269-1213
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-4658.2009.00586.x
Subject(s) - humanism , the renaissance , environmental ethics , epistemology , philosophy , ecology , history , art history , biology , theology
Abstracts This review article considers the turn to non‐humans – plants, animals, machines, and inanimate matter – within Renaissance studies. Taking four recent monographs as its central examples, the article argues that critical interest in the non‐human should not be understand as indicative of an emerging post‐humanistic era, but rather as part of a new humanism, one which finally acknowledges Man's inescapable enmeshment within a larger ecology of organic and non‐organic agents.