{"product_id":"autos-individuation-in-the-european-text-9781786606754","title":"Autós: Individuation in the European Text","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eModern political subjects seem to be caught between their limited agency and their unlimited vulnerability. This book traces the genealogy of the Western political subject in major literary, philosophical, juridical and political texts. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe narrative follows a reverse chronological path, from the modern self-sufficient individual to the corporate subject of medieval juridical theology, the legal actor of Roman codes and procedures, the voting citizen of Greek oligarchic democracies and the warrior of Homeric poems. The book suggests that the autarkic logic of the atomized modern subject and her double concern with vulnerability and agency ultimately harks back to the Greek alternative between acting and being acted upon, and its theological recasting in medieval Europe. And yet, this very acknowledgement also shows the way out of the double enclosure of individual and collective subjects, which may be at last worked out as interpenetrating multiplicities both in theory and in practice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One: Of Wounds and Woundings: Damages to the Relational Body\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: The Invention of the Modern Self between Hay and Robinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: The Fundamentalist Reinvention of the Individual in the Age of Reformation and its Discontents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: Painted, Mirrored, and Mystical Bodies: A Medieval Proliferation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: A New Interiority in Christian Romania\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six: Roman Legal Actors: The Ordered Permutation of Personae\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven: Keys to Greek Individuation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight: Greek Early Theoretical Bottlenecks and their Homeric Horizon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Nine: Not Just Autos: The Reinvention of Abundance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Provincializing the Individual\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: A Note on Paradigms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042463220055,"sku":"9781786606754","price":91.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781786606754.jpg?v=1750954243","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/autos-individuation-in-the-european-text-9781786606754","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}