Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
Pages: 292
Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-78660-675-4 • Hardback • July 2020 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
978-1-78660-676-1 • eBook • July 2020 • $34.95 • (£27.00)
Riccardo Baldissone is a Fellow at the University of Westminster's Law and Theory Centre, UK.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Reader’s (Short) Guide to Autós
Chapter One: Of Wounds and Woundings: Damages to the Relational Body
Chapter Two: The Invention of the Modern Self between Ḥayy 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: Oikeiōsis, Ousia, Autos
Chapter Eight: Greek Early Theoretical Bottlenecks and their Homeric Horizon
Chapter Nine: Not Just Autos: The Reinvention of Abundance
Epilogue: Provincializing the Individual: The Perdividuation of Relational Bodiesas a Conclusion
Appendix: A Note on Paradigms (And Relational Bodies)
Bibliography
Index
An ambitious, explosively erudite, vertiginously convincing, extremely important and indeed useful book. A maelstrom of a text, comprised of narration, literary analysis, history and philosophy, that offers an unexpected understanding of materiality as adumbrated within the textual. From Homeric gods to early Christian and Islamic ideas of commonwealth, and from Defoe’s Robinson to Medieval female mystics, Baldissone offers a completely novel yet centuries-old path to bodies, objects, gods and humans.
— Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Professor of Law and Theory, University of Westminster