What is classical culture for? Thinking with Classical Matter brings together leading experts from across the humanities, and as a whole celebrates the career of Simon Goldhill, in order to consider the place of the Ancient Greco-Roman world in the formation and formulation of different orders of knowledge. Since at least the eighteenth century, the study of Greece and Rome has played a pivotal role in both the institutional and intellectual partition of disciplines from philology to theology, aesthetics to anthropology. Such regimes of knowing, however, are also materially embedded. The knowing subject is at the same time a gendered body and the objects of knowledge are also their subject. Thinking with Classical Matter explores these questions from a wide range of theoretically informed perspectives and shows how the ancient world continues to prompt some of the most pressing questions in the humanities today.
| ISBN: | 9780197267868 |
| Publication date: | 27th February 2025 |
| Author: | Miriam Leonard, Tim Whitmarsh |
| Publisher: | British Academy an imprint of OUP/British Academy |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 222 pages |
| Series: | Proceedings of the British Academy |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy Literary theory Anthropology Ancient history History of science |
What is classical culture for? Thinking with Classical Matter brings together leading experts from across the humanities, and as a whole celebrates the career of Simon Goldhill, in order to consider the place of the Ancient Greco-Roman world in the formation and formulation of different orders of knowledge. Since at least the eighteenth century, the study of Greece and Rome has played a pivotal role in both the institutional and intellectual partition of disciplines from philology to theology, aesthetics to anthropology. Such regimes of knowing, however, are also materially embedded. The knowing subject is at the same time a gendered body and the objects of knowledge are also their subject. Thinking with Classical Matter explores these questions from a wide range of theoretically informed perspectives and shows how the ancient world continues to prompt some of the most pressing questions in the humanities today.
Thinking With Classical Matter features in the following genres: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary theory, Anthropology, Ancient history, History of science
Thinking With Classical Matter is available in Hardback
Thinking With Classical Matter was written by Miriam Leonard, Tim Whitmarsh and published by British Academy an imprint of OUP/British Academy
Thinking With Classical Matter has 222 pages
Yes it is part of Proceedings of the British Academy series
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