Morley Antiquity and Modernity

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0512-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Classical Receptions

The nature, faults and future of modern civilization and how theseconnect to the past are tackled in this broad-reaching volume.
* Presents a study of modernity that examines classicalinfluences
* Incorporates political, economic, social, and psychologicaltheories
* Highlights writings from a wide range of thinkers, includingAdam Smith, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Weber, and Freud

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morley, Neville

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Note on References.
1. Untimely Knowledge.
2. The Great Transformation: ancient and modern economics.
3. Before Alienation: the classical critique of modernsociety.
4. An Aesthetic Education: the failings of modern culture.
5. History as Nightmare: conceptions of progress anddecline.
6. Allusion and Appropriation: the rhetorical uses ofantiquity.
Bibliography of Sources.
Bibliography.
Index of Persons.
Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Neville Morley is Professor of Ancient Economic History and Historical Theory at the University of Bristol. Previous publications include Metropolis and Hinterland: The City of Rome and the Italian Economy (1996), Writing Ancient History (1999), Theories, Models and Concepts in Ancient History (2004), and Trade in Classical Antiquity (2007).