Postclassicisms

Postclassicisms
Author: The Postclassicisms Collective
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2019-12-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 022667231X

Made up of nine prominent scholars, The Postclassicisms Collective aims to map a space for theorizing and reflecting on the values attributed to antiquity. The product of these reflections, Postclassicisms takes up a set of questions about what it means to know and care about Greco-Roman antiquity in our turbulent world and offers suggestions for a discipline in transformation, as new communities are being built around the study of the ancient Greco-Roman world. Structured around three primary concepts—value, time, and responsibility—and nine additional concepts, Postclassicisms asks scholars to reflect upon why they choose to work in classics, to examine how proximity to and distance from antiquity has been—and continues to be—figured, and to consider what they seek to accomplish within their own scholarly practices. Together, the authors argue that a stronger critical self-awareness, an enhanced sense of the intellectual history of the methods of classics, and a greater understanding of the ethical and political implications of the decisions that the discipline makes will lead to a more engaged intellectual life, both for classicists and, ultimately, for society. A timely intervention into the present and future of the discipline, Postclassicisms will be required reading for professional classicists and students alike and a model for collaborative disciplinary intervention by scholars in other fields.

The Classical Tradition

The Classical Tradition
Author: Anthony Grafton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 1188
Release: 2010-10-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674035720

The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.

Formation of English Neo-Classical Thought

Formation of English Neo-Classical Thought
Author: James William Johnson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1400877482

This book reexamines some of the prevalent critical assumptions about English Neo-Classical thought and literature and tests them by viewing Neo-Classicism within its intellectual tradition and its self-defined limits. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond

Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond
Author: Eric Adler
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2016-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0472130153

Scrutinizes the contentious ideological feuds in American academia during the 1980s and 1990s

The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought

The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought
Author: William M. Wiecek
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780195147131

This volume examines legal ideology in the US from the height of the Gilded Age through the time of the New Deal, when the Supreme Court began to discard orthodox thought in favour of more modernist approaches to law. Wiecek places this era of legal thought in its historical context, integrating social, economic, and intellectual analyses.

Classical Pasts

Classical Pasts
Author: James I. Porter
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780691089423

'Classical Pasts' addresses the concepts of a (so-called) 'classical' antiquity and the 'classical' ideal, which were once legion, and which today tend to be assumed and left unqueried rather than subjected to scrutiny.

The Literature of Weimar Classicism

The Literature of Weimar Classicism
Author: Simon Richter
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 157113249X

New essays providing an account of the shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values of Weimar Classicism.