Humans, among other classical animals / Ashley Clements.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clements, Ashley, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Postclassical interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Western--Classical influences.

Civilization, Western.

Civilization, Classical--Study and teaching.

Civilization, Classical.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Ecology--Philosophy.

Ecology.

Human beings--Philosophy.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

xii, 148 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"We are living in a moment of environmental and existential crisis that demands a response. Why then study Classics now? From the European assimilation and destruction of the New World to our present environmental destruction of our shared world, this book explores in encounters an answer by demonstrating how the Classics have been implicated in the structures of thought that have ultimately led us to our present historical moment. Telling the story of anthropology's Classical entanglements from its inception to its growth to critical self-awareness, it demonstrates that Classical ideas have played a crucial -and often deleterious- role in the Western placing of the human and in the discipline that claimed the study of humanity as its own. Responses to our present crisis, it argues, should therefore include as a prerequisite, considering the origins and implications of these Classical foundations because only by so doing can we attain the full self-awareness necessary to think beyond them and consider the alternatives we now need"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Horsing around the Americas

2. Analogous Apes

3. Breathless Beasts and Stuffed Savages

4. From Organic Societies to Unnatural Lives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

019285609X

9780192856098

OCLC:

1259046191