Anderson Greg (Associate Professor Associate Professor Ohio State University)
Anderson Greg (Associate Professor Associate Professor Ohio State University) - The Realness Of Things Past Ancient Greece And Ontological History - Hardcover
Anderson Greg (Associate Professor Associate Professor Ohio State University) - The Realness Of Things Past Ancient Greece And Ontological History - Hardcover
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Description: The Realness of Things Past proposes a new paradigm of historical practice. It questions the way we conventionally historicize the experiences of non - modern peoples western and non - western and makes the case for an alternative. It shows how our standard analytical devices impose modern dualist metaphysical conditions upon all non - modern realities thereby authorizing us to align those realities with our own modern ontological commitments fundamentally altering their contents in the process. The net result is a practice that homogenizes the past's many different ways of being human. To produce histories that are more ethically defensible more philosophically robust and more historically meaningful we need to take an ontological turn in our practice. The book works to formulate a non - dualist historicism that will allow readers to analyse each past reality on its own ontological terms as a more or less autonomous world unto itself. To make the case for this alternative paradigm the book engages with currents of thought in many different intellectual provinces from anthropology and postcolonial studies to the sociology of science and quantum physics. And to demonstrate how the new paradigm might work in practice it uses classical Athens as its primary case study. The Realness of Things Past is divided into three parts. To highlight the limitations of conventional historicist analysis and the need for an alternative Part I critically scrutinizes our standard modern accounts of "democratic Athens." Part II draws on a wide range of historical ethnographic and theoretical literatures to frame ethical and philosophical mandates for the proposed ontological turn. To illustrate the historical benefits of this alternative paradigm Part III then shows how it allows us to produce an entirely new and more meaningful account of the Athenian politeia or "way of life." The book is expressly written to be accessible to a non - specialist cross - disciplinary readership.
Title: The Realness Of Things Past Ancient Greece And Ontological History
Author(s): Anderson Greg (Associate Professor Associate Professor Ohio State University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190886646
Pages: 336 Pages, 3
Publication Date: 9/11/2018
Category: Ancient History: To C 500 Ce
Description: The Realness of Things Past proposes a new paradigm of historical practice. It questions the way we conventionally historicize the experiences of non - modern peoples western and non - western and makes the case for an alternative. It shows how our standard analytical devices impose modern dualist metaphysical conditions upon all non - modern realities thereby authorizing us to align those realities with our own modern ontological commitments fundamentally altering their contents in the process. The net result is a practice that homogenizes the past's many different ways of being human. To produce histories that are more ethically defensible more philosophically robust and more historically meaningful we need to take an ontological turn in our practice. The book works to formulate a non - dualist historicism that will allow readers to analyse each past reality on its own ontological terms as a more or less autonomous world unto itself. To make the case for this alternative paradigm the book engages with currents of thought in many different intellectual provinces from anthropology and postcolonial studies to the sociology of science and quantum physics. And to demonstrate how the new paradigm might work in practice it uses classical Athens as its primary case study. The Realness of Things Past is divided into three parts. To highlight the limitations of conventional historicist analysis and the need for an alternative Part I critically scrutinizes our standard modern accounts of "democratic Athens." Part II draws on a wide range of historical ethnographic and theoretical literatures to frame ethical and philosophical mandates for the proposed ontological turn. To illustrate the historical benefits of this alternative paradigm Part III then shows how it allows us to produce an entirely new and more meaningful account of the Athenian politeia or "way of life." The book is expressly written to be accessible to a non - specialist cross - disciplinary readership.
Title: The Realness Of Things Past Ancient Greece And Ontological History
Author(s): Anderson Greg (Associate Professor Associate Professor Ohio State University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190886646
Pages: 336 Pages, 3
Publication Date: 9/11/2018
Category: Ancient History: To C 500 Ce
