The Equality of Flesh: Materialism and Human Commonality in Early Modern Culture - Hardcover
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The Equality of Flesh traces a new genealogy of equality before its formalization under liberalism. 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...
Brent Dawson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon. His work has been published in the journals ELH, New Literary History, and Renaissance Drama.
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