This book radically re-examines Europe's imaginaries of its origin
in the ancient Greek world. Extracting central concepts of critical
theory in its widest sense - beyond the Frankfurt School - like the
human, force, spirit and domination, it allies them to characters,
mythologies and motifs in ancient thought. Just as the stories of
Achilles, Helen and Odysseus have become central to our modes of
self-understanding, so we can also examine the roots and routes of
the concepts of social theory out of the ancient earth and its
myths. An important book for scholars and students of critical
theory, social theory, aesthetic theory and the history of the
human sciences, it alerts us to the catastrophe that we are facing
in the 21st century - a catastrophe of domination and ecological
collapse that has its origins in the ancient world and the ways in
which it began to define a certain sense of humanness. Considering
the artistic production of the ancient world in relation to the
thought of Adorno, Critical Theory and the Classical World argues
that it is only by understanding the persistence of the haunted
motifs of the past into the present that we can begin to re-forge
our critical theory of society and re-found our social formations
on a new basis.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Classical and Contemporary Social Theory |
Release date: |
November 2019 |
First published: |
2019 |
Authors: |
Martyn Hudson
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
202 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-367-89722-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Social theory
|
LSN: |
0-367-89722-9 |
Barcode: |
9780367897222 |
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