Antiquity and modernity [[electronic resource] /] / Neville Morley
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| Autore: |
Morley Neville
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| Titolo: |
Antiquity and modernity [[electronic resource] /] / Neville Morley
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| Pubblicazione: | Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 300.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social sciences - Philosophy |
| Social evolution | |
| History, Ancient - Philosophy | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Antiquity and modernity |
| ISBN: | 1-282-00740-8 |
| 9786612007408 | |
| 1-4443-0511-5 | |
| 1-4443-0512-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818231903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Classical receptions.