Chad Córdova

Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University and author of Toward a Premodern Posthumanism, specializing in aesthetics, early modern French thought, and environmental humanities.

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Dec 6, 2025 • 56min

Chad Augustine Córdova, "Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Early Modern France" (Northwestern UP, 2025)

Chad Córdova, an Assistant Professor at Cornell specializing in early modern French thought, explores the untapped potential of aesthetics in addressing ecological crises. He proposes that a premodern posthumanism can challenge traditional human-centered perspectives. Topics include Montaigne's essays as relational forms, the interplay of beauty and ethics through Nietzsche, and the relevance of Aristotle's spontaneous generation. Córdova advocates for a multitemporal reading of texts to rethink our connections with nature, art, and politics amid contemporary challenges.

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