Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents
formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. 'Deep
Classics' is the study of these obstacles and, in particular, of
the way in which the contemplation of the classical past resembles
- and has even provided a model for - other kinds of human
endeavor. This volume offers a new way to understand the modalities
and aims of Classics itself, through the ages. Its individual
chapters draw fruitful connections between the reception of the
classical and current concerns in philosophy of mind, cognitive
theory, epistemology, media studies, sense studies, aesthetics,
queer theory and eco-criticism. What does the study of the ancient
past teach us about our encounters with our own more recent but
still elusive memories? What do our always partial reconstructions
of ancient sites tell us about the limits of our ability to know
our own world, or to imagine our future? What does the reader of
the lacunose and corrupted literatures of antiquity learn thereby
about literature and language themselves? What does a shattered
statue reveal about art, matter, sensation, experience, life? Does
the way in which these vestiges of the past are encountered -
sitting in a library, standing in a gallery, moving through a ruin
- condition our responses to them and alter their significance? And
finally, how has the contemplation of antiquity helped to shape
seemingly unrelated disciplines, including not only other
humanistic and scientific epistemologies but also non-scholarly
modes and practices? In asking these and similar questions, Deep
Classics makes a pointed intervention in the study of the classical
tradition, now more widely known as 'reception studies'.
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