书目名称 | Stupid Humanism | 副标题 | Folly as Competence | 编辑 | Christine Hoffmann | 视频video | | 概述 | Re-conceives how scholars and thinkers should approach traditional notions of Humanism.Explores a wide range of source material from both the Early Modern period and contemporary culture, including Sh | 丛书名称 | Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700 | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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 relati | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | 关键词 | literary analysis of memes; stupidity and humanism; spam in the 21st and 16th centuries; copia and the | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63751-8 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-87626-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-63751-8Series ISSN 2634-5897 Series E-ISSN 2634-5900 | issn_series | 2634-5897 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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