{"product_id":"the-antic-root-shakespeare-autopoiesis-and-the-creation-of-the-world-hardcover","title":"The Antic Root: Shakespeare, Autopoiesis, and the Creation of the World - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher Pye\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Antic Root\u003c\/i\u003e explores the relations among art, sense-experience, and the conception of the world in the early modern era. Against vitalist and posthumanist accounts that presume to grasp the world beyond its interpretive framing, Pye argues that any possibility of conceiving a world beyond us depends on acknowledging the fact of its mediated condition, a condition Shakespeare explored with particular acuity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRather than either a subjective or objective phenomenon, Pye shows how the world should be understood as an autopoietic one, that is, as a function of the process through which the very distinction between self and environment is constituted, a formative mechanism extending from the creation of the world as a phenomenal domain to the most intimate dimensions of affective life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCoinciding with the separation of spheres during the era, autopoiesis lies at the heart of Shakespeare's reflexive art, revealing the grounds of the works' generic distinctions. Engaging plays from \u003ci\u003eTwelfth Night \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e to the late romances, and concluding with an in-depth consideration of the painter Diego Velázquez, \u003ci\u003eThe Antic Root\u003c\/i\u003e enlists autopoiesis to rethink the boundaries of the human in relation to affect, disability, animality, environment, and law. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUltimately, autopoietics lets us imagine community, human and otherwise, beyond economic notions of equivalency, and justice beyond the assignation of guilt and innocence, as a condition of indebtedness that amounts to the origin of being as such.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Pye \u003c\/b\u003eis Class of 1924 Professor of English Emeritus at Williams College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), \u003ci\u003eThe Vanishing: Shakespeare, The Subject and Early Modern Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(2000), and \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRegal Phantasm: Shakespeare and the Politics of Spectacle \u003c\/i\u003e(1990), and editor of \u003ci\u003ePolitical\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAesthetics in the Era of Shakespeare \u003c\/i\u003e(2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48468865941752,"sku":"9781531513832","price":180.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/SCyrTs7SbF9781531513832.webp?v=1779346228","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/the-antic-root-shakespeare-autopoiesis-and-the-creation-of-the-world-hardcover","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}