Coda
Coda
Epic Humanisms
The coda returns to questions of homecoming and totality understood as characteristic of the epic, to its construction of species and species voice. Taking note of the embrace of the scientific epic by contemporary universal historians in the humanities, the coda also looks to the revision of critical scholarship renegotiating positions on the implications of contemporary universal history and scientific periodization for notions of human history and universality. It returns to putative alliances and distinctions between the categories of epic and myth, and to how they might underscore ambitions and dilemmas tied to the authorship of a scientific epic projected as myth.
Keywords: epic, myth, totality, anthropocene, big history, deep history, evolutionary history, evolutionary dilemmas, universal history
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