{"product_id":"the-equality-of-flesh-9781501775659","title":"The Equality of Flesh","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Equality of Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e traces a new genealogy of equality before its formalization under liberalism.\u003c\/b\u003e While modern ideas of equality are defined through an inner human nature, Brent Dawson argues that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries conceptualized equality as an ambivalent and profoundly bodily condition. Everyone was made from the same lowly matter and, as a result, shared the same set of vulnerabilities, needs, and passions. Responding to the political upheavals of colonialism and the intellectual turmoil of new natural philosophies, leading figures of the English Renaissance, including Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare, anxiously imagined that bodily commonality might undermine differences of religion, race, and class.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the period progressed, later authors developed the revolutionary possibilities of bodily equality even as new ideas of fixed racial inequality emerged. Somelike the utopian radical Gerrard Winstanley and the republican poet\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409378582871,"sku":"9781501775659","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501775659.jpg?v=1730506598","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-equality-of-flesh-9781501775659","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}