Stupid humanism : folly as competence in early modern and twenty-first-century culture / Christine Hoffmann.
2017
BF431 .H553 2017
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Title
Stupid humanism : folly as competence in early modern and twenty-first-century culture / Christine Hoffmann.
Author
Hoffmann, Christine.
ISBN
9783319637518 (electronic book)
3319637517 (electronic book)
3319637509
9783319637501
3319637517 (electronic book)
3319637509
9783319637501
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Language
English
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BF431 .H553 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
153.9
Summary
This book frames the undeniably copious 21st-century performances of stupidity that occur within social media as echoes of rhetorical experiments conducted by humanist writers of the Renaissance. Any historical overview of humanism will associate it with copia—abundance of expression—and the rhetorical practices essential to managing it. This book argues that stupidity was and is a synonym for copia, making the humanism of which copia is a central element an inherently stupid philosophy. A transhistorical exploration of stupidity demonstrates that not only is excess still the surest way to eloquence, but it is also just the kind of spammy, speculative undertaking to generate a more generous and inventive comprehension of human and nonhuman relationships. In chapters exploring the rhetorics of memes, attack ads, public shaming blogs, clickbait and gifs, Stupid Humanism outlines the possibilities for a humanism less invested in the normative logics that enshrine knowledge, eloquence and linear development as the chief indicators of an active, articulated selfhood and more supportive of a program for queer knowledge, trivial pursuits, anti-social ethics and the curious relationships that form around and in response to abundance of expression.
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Early modern cultural studies.
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