How Not to Be Human - by Matthew Calarco (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book presents an analysis of the poet Robinson Jeffers in view of his contributions to recent debates about the status of "the human" and the development of an inhumanist philosophy.

Book Synopsis

This book presents an analysis of the poet Robinson Jeffers in view of his contributions to recent debates about the status of "the human" and the development of an inhumanist philosophy.

Review Quotes

The book is appropriately cautious in pointing out ambiguities and potential dangers, and it also offers the reader a good sample of Jeffer's poetry. Jeffers's rewriting of Greek tragedies may be of special interest here. -CHOICE

"Calarco's book is exciting, intriguing, and invigorating. The structuring of the book through the five major thematic lines-evil/theodicy, saviors, cosmos, humans, and values-worked really well and is a blessing and a gift to the reader." - Jessica Pierce, Faculty Affiliate with the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

"Lucid and reader-friendly yet imbued with philosophical gravitas, Matthew Calarco has written the perfect accompaniment to a growing twenty-first-century awareness of the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Calarco shows that at the compassionate heart of Jeffers's radical inhumanism is a bold demand, not just to understand the inhuman, but to learn to love it." - Jeff Wallace, Professor Emeritus, Cardiff Metropolitan University, and author of Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity: Human and Inhuman (2023)

"Matthew Calarco's How Not to Be Human is a timely conversation about what matters most-the individual's relationship to society and human's relationship to the more-thanhuman cosmos. Calarco invigorates Robinson Jeffers's work with a philosophical vitality for our times." - Dr. Ron Broglio, Arizona State University

About the Author

Matthew Calarco is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton.