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When Worlds Elide - Classics, Politics, Culture (Hardcover, New)
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When Worlds Elide - Classics, Politics, Culture (Hardcover, New)
Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
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For better or worse, the ancient Greeks retain their cultural,
political, and philosophical authority for contemporary educators
and actors. Maureen Dowd has talked about the Hellenization of the
Bush administration, Thucydides has been used as a template to
analyze the Iraqi War and the War on Terror, Greek drama has been
repeatedly performed in sometimes spectacular if unconventional
ways, while the Trojan War, the battle of Thermopylae, the
Spartans, and Alexander have all been the subjects of recent films.
Last year the New York Times carried a front page story about
"conservatives" taking a "new tack" by establishing "beachheads"
for programs in Western Civilization and American Institutions in
which the ancient Greeks hold pride of place. The contributors to
When Worlds Elide are also invested in having Greek philosophy,
literature, and political theory taken seriously in contemporary
debates-whether over modes of interpreting Plato, Athenian
democracy, gender, ethnicity, or materiality. What distinguishes
this book is the substantive range of the essays in it and the
generative potentialities of "using" ancient authors and events in
analyzing these debates. It begins from the premise that "the
Greeks" (like "the French" or "the Chinese") obscures the contested
histories of ethnic, geographic, and political formations in favor
of an idealized dehistoricized collectivity. The also book also
illustrates the ways in which ancient texts must be understood
within the history of interpretative practices, which means that
"the Greeks" are more a moving target than a stable entity, and
that each generation of interlocutors formulates continually
transforming questions, readings, and arguments. Finally, this book
supposes that an interrogation of "the Greek legacy" depends on
interdisciplinary work where interdisciplinarity functions as a
verb-that is, something that is always in the process of being
achieved.
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