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Modernity's Classics

  • Presents critical studies of modern reconfigurations of conceptions of the past
  • Interdisciplinary and global scope
  • Emphasizes the complexity of the modernization process

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction

    • Sarah C. Humphreys, Rudolf G. Wagner
    Pages 1-19
  3. Repositioning Texts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
    2. Classical Scholarship and Arab Modernity

      • Peter E. Pormann
      Pages 123-141
    3. The Septuagint as a Jewish Classic

      • Nicholas de Lange
      Pages 143-163
    4. Towards an Anthropology of Reading

      • Sarah C. Humphreys
      Pages 187-208
  4. Reconstructing Pastness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
    2. Homer, Skepticism, and the History of Philology

      • James I. Porter
      Pages 261-292
    3. Naked Presence and Disciplinary Wording

      • Michael Fotiadis
      Pages 293-313
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 331-346

About this book

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

Editors and Affiliations

  • Oxford, United Kingdom

    Sarah C. Humphreys

  • , Exzellenzcluster "Asia and Europe", Karl Jasper Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

    Rudolf G. Wagner

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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