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Record Nr.

UNINA9910438231203321

Titolo

Modernity's Classics [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Sarah C. Humphreys, Rudolf G Wagner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

1-299-33628-0

3-642-33071-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Collana

Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context, , 2191-656X

Disciplina

306.01

Soggetti

Cultural studies

Philology

Archaeology

Cultural Studies

Classical Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I: Anchoring Modernity -- The Making of New Delhi. Classical Aesthetics, “Oriental” Tradition and Architectural Practice: a Transcultural View -- Classics in the Garden: Suppers in an Earthly Paradise -- A Classic Paving the Way to Modernity: The Ritual of Zhou in the Chinese Reform Debate since the Taiping Civil War -- Modernity’s Islamicist: Sayyid Qutb’s Theocentric Reconstruction of Sovereignty -- Part II: Repositioning Texts -- Classical Scholarship and Arab Modernity -- The Septuagint as a Jewish Classic -- Phenomenon and Reference: Revisiting Parmenides, Empedocles, and the Problem of Rationalization -- Towards an Anthropology of Reading -- Part III: Reconstructing Pastness -- The Ruins of the Others: History and Modernity in Iran -- Making New Classics: the Archaeology of Luo Zhenyu and Victor Segalen -- Homer, Skepticism, and the History of Philology -- Naked Presence and Disciplinary Wording -- Middling Ages and Living Relics as Objects to Think with: Two Figures of the Historical Imagination.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents critical studies of modern reconfigurations of



conceptions of the past, of the 'classical', and of national heritage. Its scope is global (China, India, Egypt, Iran, Judaism, the Greco-Roman world) and inter-disciplinary (textual philology, history of art and architecture, philosophy, gardening). Its emphasis is on the complexity of the modernization process and of reactions to it: ideas and technologies travelled from India to Iran and from Japan to China, while reactions show tensions between museumization and the recreation of 'presence'. It challenges readers to rethink the assumptions of the disciplines in which they were trained.