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