Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Emanuela Bianchi ◽  
Sara Brill ◽  
Brooke Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Classical Scholarship ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Roman Antiquity ◽  
Ancient Texts

This chapter introduces the main purpose of the volume, namely staging, through fourteen essays, an encounter between the texts of classical Greco-Roman antiquity and the insights of posthumanism and the “new materialisms,” which point toward entities, forces, and systems that pass through and beyond the human, It discusses how ancient texts, experienced through this lens as both familiar and strange, can forge new understandings of life, whether understood as zoological, psychical, ethical, juridical, political, theological, or cosmic. Further, it situates the volume within the history of classical scholarship since the eighteenth century, and relates how the volume contributes to the broader milieu of contemporary philosophy and the theoretical humanities. Finally, it gives an outline of each chapter, showing how each contributes to the volume’s project as a whole.

The Discourse on Economics

2019 ◽  
pp. 88-116
Author(s):  
Cedric J. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
European History ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Select Group ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oppositional Discourse

Based on the previous chapter’s demonstration of the links between Marxism and German bourgeois thought, Robinson argues in this chapter that Marxism represents neither the interests of the oppressed nor a radical break with contemporary philosophy. Chapter 4 provides an alternative history of oppositional discourse on poverty in European history that Robinson uses to emancipate socialism from the rigid ideological regime of bourgeois intellectuals imposed by Marxism. Robinson demonstrates the importance of Aristotle and Athenian philosophy for the empirical, conceptual, and moral precepts of modern economics. Robinson then traces the persistence of socialist impulses in Europe’s Middle Ages, particularly in the work of Marsilius and the Jesuits and its eventual transformation into the secular socialist utopianism of eighteenth century bourgeois Europeans. In both cases, he shows how radical gender relations are effaced by modern economics and by Marxism. Robinson thus shows how Marx and Engel’s scientific historical economics privileged a select group of bourgeois ideologists, insisting upon individualism and historical materialism and ignoring alternative oppositional discourses built in previous rebellions against oppression, inequality, racism, gender discrimination, and poverty.

The Perennial Quarrel

2020 ◽  
pp. 305-336
Author(s):  
Frederic Clark
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
Classical Scholar ◽  
Giambattista Vico ◽  
Classical Scholarship ◽  
Truth Value ◽  
Ancient Texts

The Conclusion begins by bringing the story of Dares up to the decades around 1700. It considers both changes and continuities in Dares’ afterlife over the course of the preceding millennium. It then examines the neglected role of the Destruction of Troy in two developments long linked to the eighteenth century: namely, the origins of modern professionalized classical scholarship and the advent of a sense of “disenchantment” concerning the truth-value of ancient texts and traditions. It places Dares within the so-called “quarrel of the ancients and the moderns” (querelle des anciens et des modernes) and examines the commentary on the Destruction of Troy composed by the French classical scholar Anne Dacier (a partisan of the “ancients” who later defended Homer against “modern” critiques). It also discusses invocations of Dares by figures including Jean Mabillon, Giambattista Vico, and Thomas Jefferson. The Conclusion ends with broader reflections on what Dares’ reception history can tell us about the paradoxes inherent in modern approaches to antiquity.

Carlos Poveda's Menu

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 78-83
Author(s):  
marjorie ross
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Art Form ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Antiquity ◽  
Domestic Landscapes ◽  
Contemporary Artists

Carlos Poveda's Domestic Landscapes are linked to a history of food and art that reaches back to Greco-Roman antiquity and becomes empowered with contemporary artists who sculpt or paint their works in edible materials to be devoured by spectators. Poveda's Landscapes, however, offer food that is symbolic——inedible. He reinvents the organic by using industrial refuse that he converts, colors, and models in a cauldron in a process as akin to alchemy as to cooking. His is not a faithful transcription of meals in the style of classical still lifes, but rather an artistic overlapping of emotions, that surround the idea of the edible. Looking at his sculptures we may feel revulsion, but what sickens us is not so much his creation as the awareness it brings of our intrinsically predatory nature. He gives us an art form that not only fails to provoke appetite but also touches our deepest culinary memories and leads us back to a primal past by asserting the significance of food in our collective memory. Ultimately, our strongest reaction to his work may be the fear that we won't be able to digest the absurdity of our daily life.

The reception of Greek figurative terracottas in the Age of Enlightenment1

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Jaimee P Uhlenbrock
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Greek Sculpture ◽  
Roman Antiquity

Abstract While figurative terracottas from Greco-Roman antiquity were brought to light in considerable numbers from sites on the Italian mainland and in Sicily in the seventeenth century, they were consistently overlooked as important and representative examples of classical art. It was only in the later eighteenth century in Sicily that important collections of Greek figurative terracottas were assembled that began to attract the attention of northern Europeans. A demand for these accessible examples of miniature Greek sculpture arose that ultimately contributed to the formation of some of the most important antiquities collections in Europe.

scholarly journals Anchoring Innovation: A Classical Research Agenda

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ineke Sluiter
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Revolving Door ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
American Constitution ◽  
Electric Cars ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Antiquity ◽  
New Research

Several periods in classical (Greco-Roman) antiquity provide an intriguing mix of being ‘in the grip of the past’ and profoundly innovative in all societal domains at the same time. A new research agenda of the Dutch classicists investigates this combination, under the hypothesis that the two are connected. Successful innovations must somehow be ‘anchored’ for the relevant social group(s). This paper explores the new concept of ‘anchoring’, and some of the ways in which ‘the new’ and ‘the old’ are evaluated and used in classical antiquity and our own times. Its examples range from a piece of ancient theatrical equipment to the history of the revolving door, from an ornamental feature of Greek temples to the design of electric cars, and from the Delphic oracle to the role of the American constitution.

History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Nature ◽  
1927 ◽  
Vol 119 (3004) ◽  
pp. 776-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. F. DRUCE
Keyword(s):  
Greco Roman ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Antiquity

On Broken Glass: For a Semiotics of Anti-Materiality

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo Leone
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Early Modernity ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Antiquity ◽  
Damaged Materials ◽  
Initial Exploration

AbstractScholars have mostly focused on “positive materiality,” studying the meaning of materials and techniques in the production of artifacts. Matter, however, means not only when it is shaped into materiality but also when it is destroyed. The essay that follows is meant to represent a first tentative enquiry into the meaning of anti-materiality. The study of destroyed artifacts aims at pointing out that matter is always materiality. It always conserves a shadow of meaning, independently from how profoundly its earlier form was disintegrated. The crepuscular significance of damaged materials has mostly escaped the attention of scholars. The essay attempts an initial exploration of it, proposing a condensed cultural history of broken glass. It therefore seeks to combine, in the same exposition, a chronological and a structural overview of broken glass, from Greco-Roman antiquity until early modernity.

scholarly journals AS AVENTURAS DE TELÉMACO E DIÓFANES: A FORMAÇÃO VIRTUOSA ATRAVÉS DE NARRATIVAS ROMANESCAS NO SÉCULO XVIII | THE ADVENTURES OF TELÉMACO AND DIÓFANES: THE VIRTUOUS UPBRINGING THROUGH NOVELISTIC NARRATIVES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

2016 ◽  
pp. 292
Author(s):  
Valnikson Viana Oliveira ◽  
Daniela Maria Segabinazi
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Civic Values ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
French Author ◽  
Roman Antiquity

<p>Este artigo procura mostrar de que maneira os romances <em>As aventuras de Telémaco</em> (2006), do autor francês François Fénelon, e <em>Aventuras de Diófanes</em> (1993), da escritora luso-brasileira Teresa Margarida da Silva e Orta, contribuíam para a formação virtuosa de crianças durante o século XVIII. As narrativas resgataram personagens e mitos da antiguidade clássica greco-romana para difundir determinados valores morais e cívicos, também envolvendo críticas ao contexto político e social de França e Portugal. Para embasar nosso trabalho, nos valemos principalmente de Abreu (2003), Coelho (1991) e Hipolito (2004), compreendendo as obras em seu contexto histórico de produção e circulação. </p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> <em>This article aims to show how the novels </em>As aventuras de Telémaco<em> (2006) by the French author Francois Fénelon and </em>Aventuras de Diófanes<em> (1993) by the Luso-Brazilian writer Teresa Margarida da Silva e Orta contributed to the virtuous upbringing of children during the eighteenth century. The narratives not only revived characters and myths of Greco-Roman antiquity to diffuse certain moral and civic values but also entailed criticism of the political and social context of France and Portugal. As the basis for the discussion, the works of Abreu (2003), Coleho (1991) and Hipolito (2004) are utilized to assist in the understanding of the novels in the historical context of their production and circulation</em>.</p>

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