Description: Athens in Paris : Ancient Greece And the Political in Post-war French Thought, Hardcover by Leonard, Miriam, ISBN 0199277257, ISBN-13 9780199277254, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Classical Presences Series Editors: Lorna Hardwick, Professor of Classical Studies, Open University, and James I. Porter^, Professor of Greek, Latin, and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan The texts, ideas, images, and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome have always been crucial to attempts to appropriate the past in order to authenticate the present. They underlie the mapping of change and the assertion and challenging of values and identities, old and new. Classical Presences brings the latest scholarship to bear on the contexts, theory, and practice of such use, and abuse, of the classical past. Athens in Paris explores the ways in which the writings of the ancient Greeks played a decisive part in shaping the intellectual projects of structuralism and post-structuralism--arguably the most significant currents of thought of the post-war era. Miriam Leonard argues that thinkers in post-war France turned to the example of Athenian democracy in their debates over the role of political subjectivity and ethical choice in the life of the modern citizen. The authors she investigates, who include Lacan, Derrida, Foucault, and Vernant, have had an incalculable influence on the direction of classical studies over the last thirty years, but classicists have yet to give due attention to the crucial role of the ancient world in the development of their philosophy.
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Book Title: Athens in Paris : Ancient Greece And the Political in Post-war Fr
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Athens in Paris : Ancient Greece and the Political in Post-War French Thought
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2005
Subject: European / French, Europe / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece), Europe / France, World / European, History & Surveys / Modern
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 17.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Political Science, History
Author: Miriam Leonard
Item Length: 8.8 in
Series: Classical Presences Ser.
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Hardcover
