Antiquity and modernity [[electronic resource] /] / Neville Morley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910145811603321
• Autore: Morley Neville
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-00740-8; 9786612007408; 1-4443-0511-5; 1-4443-0512-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Collana: Classical receptions
• Disciplina: 300.1
• Soggetti: Social sciences - Philosophy; Social evolution; History, Ancient - Philosophy; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [164]-175) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Untimely knowledge -- The great transformation : ancient and modern economics -- Before alienation : the classical critique of modern society -- An aesthetic education : the failings of modern culture -- History as nightmare : conceptions of progress and decline -- Allusion and appropriation : the rhetorical uses of antiquity.
• Sommario/riassunto: The nature, faults and future of modern civilization and how these connect to the past are tackled in this broad-reaching volume.Presents a study of modernity that examines classical influencesIncorporates political, economic, social, and psychological theoriesHighlights writings from a wide range of thinkers, including Adam Smith, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Weber, and Freud