Classics in the modern world : a "democratic turn"? / edited by Lorna Hardwick and Stephen Harrison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hardwick, Lorna.

Harrison, Stephen J.

Series:

Classical Presences

Classical presences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature.

Literature, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (516 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Classics in the Modern World' explores the features and implications of a 'democratic turn' in modern perceptions of the ancient world. Exploring the relationship between Greek and Roman ways of thinking and modern definitions of democratic practices and approaches, it enables a wider re-evaluation of the role of classics in the modern world.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Classics in the Modern World: A �Democratic Turn�?""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Introduction: Lorna Hardwick and Stephen Harrison""; ""1. HAS THERE BEEN A �DEMOCRATIC TURN�? THE CONCEPT OF THE �TURN� IN CULTURAL ANALYSIS""; ""2. THE USE OF THE TERM �DEMOCRATIC�: EMOTIVE? DESCRIPTIVE? OPAQUE?""; ""3. THE �WORLD� THAT IS THE SUBJECT OF THE DEBATE IN THIS VOLUME�ANCIENT, MODERN, CONTEMPORARY?""; ""4. THE PRELIMINARY CONVERSATIONS UNDERLYING THE RESEARCH""; ""5. CONFERENCE DEBATES""

""6. SITUATING THIS PROJECT""""EDITORS� NOTE""; ""Section 1: Controversies and Debates""; ""1: Questioning the Democratic, and Democratic Questioning""; ""1. DEMOCRACY BETWEEN IDEOLOGY AND ASPIRATION""; ""2. ASPECTS OF DEMOCRACY: AORIST OR IMPERFECT?""; ""3. DEMOCRACY AS (SELF-)CRITIQUE: EDWARD SAID�S HUMANISM""; ""2: Against the �Democratic Turn�: Counter-texts; Counter-contexts; Counter-arguments""; ""1. CONCEPTUAL VALIDITY""; ""First: what do we understand by �turn�? And are there other examples?""

""2. IS THERE A CRITICAL MASS OF DEMOCRATICALLY ORIENTATED CONTENT AND PRACTICE?""""Trojan Horses""; ""Homer""; ""Thucydides, historiography, and the modern world""; ""3. SCHOLARSHIP AND PUBLIC PERSPECTIVES""; ""4. WHAT WOULD CONSTITUTE A �DEMOCRATIC TURN��AND IS IT FEASIBLE OR EVEN DESIRABLE?""; ""3: The Divided Legacy of Politikon: Democracy and Conflict through Roman Translation""; ""1. A RUPTURED GENEALOGY""; ""2. THE POLITICAL AS CONSENSUS""; ""3. HISTORICAL �RETURN� AS A SITE OF CRITIQUE""

""4: A Democratic Turn in the Reception of the Roman�Dutch Law of Treason in South Africa?""""5: Labour and the Classics: Plato and Crossman in Dialogue""; ""1. PLATO IN PROPRIA PERSONA""; ""2. SOCRATIC SOCIALISM?""; ""3. MEANS AND MEDIA""; ""Section 2: Area Study�The United States""; ""6: Appropriations of Cicero and Cato in the Making of American Civic Identity""; ""1. CICERO""; ""2. CATO""; ""3. THE LASTING INFLUENCE OF CICERO AND CATO""; ""7: Classics as a Weapon: African Americans and the Fight for Inclusion in American Democracy""; ""1. ALEXANDER CRUMMELL (1819�1898)""

""2. WILLIAM G. ALLEN""""3. A DEMOCRATIC TURN?""; ""8: Civilization and Savagery at the 1893 World�s Columbian Exposition""; ""1. THE WHITE CITY""; ""2. MACHINERY HALL""; ""3. THE MIDWAY PLAISANCE""; ""4. FAIRGOER RESPONSE: PATTERNS AND POSSIBILITIES""; ""9: The Expansion of Tragedy as Critique""; ""10: Investigating American Women�s Engagements with Graeco-Roman Antiquity, and Expanding the Circle of Classicists""; ""1. DEFINING �BETTER PRACTICES� IN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION""

""2. �CASE IN POINT� FOR TWO CASE STUDIES: AMERICAN WOMEN�S ENGAGEMENTS WITH CLASSICAL STUDIES AND CLASSICISM""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 2, 2013).

ISBN:

0-19-102994-7

0-19-176057-9

0-19-165543-0

OCLC:

868960284