LEADER 05157nam 22006731 450 001 996205776003316 005 20181127113215.0 010 $a0-19-102994-7 010 $a0-19-176057-9 010 $a0-19-165543-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000001128768 035 $a(EBL)3055730 035 $a(OCoLC)868960284 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001173492 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11668833 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001173492 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11104289 035 $a(PQKB)11756877 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000176062 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3055730 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001128768 100 $a20130426d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aClassics in the modern world $ea "democratic turn"? /$fedited by Lorna Hardwick and Stephen Harrison 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aOxford :$cOxford University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (516 p.) 225 1 $aClassical Presences 225 0$aClassical presences 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-967392-6 311 $a1-299-98151-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Cover""; ""Classics in the Modern World: A a???Democratic Turna????""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Introduction: Lorna Hardwick and Stephen Harrison""; ""1. HAS THERE BEEN A a???DEMOCRATIC TURNa???? THE CONCEPT OF THE a???TURNa??? IN CULTURAL ANALYSIS""; ""2. THE USE OF THE TERM a???DEMOCRATICa???: EMOTIVE? DESCRIPTIVE? OPAQUE?""; ""3. THE a???WORLDa??? THAT IS THE SUBJECT OF THE DEBATE IN THIS VOLUMEa???ANCIENT, MODERN, CONTEMPORARY?""; ""4. THE PRELIMINARY CONVERSATIONS UNDERLYING THE RESEARCH""; ""5. CONFERENCE DEBATES"" 327 $a""6. SITUATING THIS PROJECT""""EDITORSa??? NOTE""; ""Section 1: Controversies and Debates""; ""1: Questioning the Democratic, and Democratic Questioning""; ""1. DEMOCRACY BETWEEN IDEOLOGY AND ASPIRATION""; ""2. ASPECTS OF DEMOCRACY: AORIST OR IMPERFECT?""; ""3. DEMOCRACY AS (SELF-)CRITIQUE: EDWARD SAIDa???S HUMANISM""; ""2: Against the a???Democratic Turna???: Counter-texts; Counter-contexts; Counter-arguments""; ""1. CONCEPTUAL VALIDITY""; ""First: what do we understand by a???turna???? And are there other examples?"" 327 $a""2. IS THERE A CRITICAL MASS OF DEMOCRATICALLY ORIENTATED CONTENT AND PRACTICE?""""Trojan Horses""; ""Homer""; ""Thucydides, historiography, and the modern world""; ""3. SCHOLARSHIP AND PUBLIC PERSPECTIVES""; ""4. WHAT WOULD CONSTITUTE A a???DEMOCRATIC TURNa???a???AND IS IT FEASIBLE OR EVEN DESIRABLE?""; ""3: The Divided Legacy of Politikon: Democracy and Conflict through Roman Translation""; ""1. A RUPTURED GENEALOGY""; ""2. THE POLITICAL AS CONSENSUS""; ""3. HISTORICAL a???RETURNa??? AS A SITE OF CRITIQUE"" 327 $a""4: A Democratic Turn in the Reception of the Romana???Dutch Law of Treason in South Africa?""""5: Labour and the Classics: Plato and Crossman in Dialogue""; ""1. PLATO IN PROPRIA PERSONA""; ""2. SOCRATIC SOCIALISM?""; ""3. MEANS AND MEDIA""; ""Section 2: Area Studya???The United States""; ""6: Appropriations of Cicero and Cato in the Making of American Civic Identity""; ""1. CICERO""; ""2. CATO""; ""3. THE LASTING INFLUENCE OF CICERO AND CATO""; ""7: Classics as a Weapon: African Americans and the Fight for Inclusion in American Democracy""; ""1. ALEXANDER CRUMMELL (1819a???1898)"" 327 $a""2. WILLIAM G. ALLEN""""3. A DEMOCRATIC TURN?""; ""8: Civilization and Savagery at the 1893 Worlda???s Columbian Exposition""; ""1. THE WHITE CITY""; ""2. MACHINERY HALL""; ""3. THE MIDWAY PLAISANCE""; ""4. FAIRGOER RESPONSE: PATTERNS AND POSSIBILITIES""; ""9: The Expansion of Tragedy as Critique""; ""10: Investigating American Womena???s Engagements with Graeco-Roman Antiquity, and Expanding the Circle of Classicists""; ""1. DEFINING a???BETTER PRACTICESa??? IN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION"" 327 $a""2. a???CASE IN POINTa??? FOR TWO CASE STUDIES: AMERICAN WOMENa???S ENGAGEMENTS WITH CLASSICAL STUDIES AND CLASSICISM"" 330 8 $a'Classics in the Modern World' explores the features and implications of a 'democratic turn' in modern perceptions of the ancient world. Exploring the relationship between Greek and Roman ways of thinking and modern definitions of democratic practices and approaches, it enables a wider re-evaluation of the role of classics in the modern world. 410 0$aClassical Presences 606 $aClassical literature 606 $aLiterature, Ancient 615 0$aClassical literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Ancient. 676 $a880.9 701 $aHardwick$b Lorna$0176614 701 $aHarrison$b Stephen J$0288956 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996205776003316 996 $aClassics in the modern world$92397486 997 $aUNISA