Afterwords: Hellenism, Modernism, and the Myth of Decadence - Hardcover

Afterwords: Hellenism, Modernism, and the Myth of Decadence.

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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. XIII, 260 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Ein tadelloses Exemplar / an excellent copy. - This book about nostalgia raises the question of why it has become such a dominant and influential posture in contemporary philosophical and theological writing. The author notes the presence of the word "after" in a great many contemporary academic titles, and notes a spiritual sort of alienation that many feel in the "modern age." Out of this scholarly discontent emerges one of two related attempts: the attempt to return to a premodern manner of thinking and being (nostalgia); and the playful flight into some vaguely defined "postmodernity" (utopia). In cither case, the common perception is that modernity is a problem, a problem to be avoided or escaped. Bringing philosophical and theological texts into conversation with one another, the book discovers a startling similarity in the accounts of modernness offered in these disparate idioms. Both are telling a storya story which, the author argues, is as seductive as it is misguided. / CONTENTS Preface: On Living After Greece A PREMONITION 1. After Nietzsche? When Un-modem Turned Anti-modem PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS 2. After the Polis? On the Use and Abuse of Aristotle's Political Animal 3. After Virtue? On Distorted Philosophical Narratives THEOLOGICAL TEXTS 4. After Christendom? On Distorted Theological Narratives 5. After Belief? Fundamentalism, Secularization, and the Tragic Posture PREMONITION FULFILLED 6. Aftermath? On Modernist Prejudices and the Past Afterword: A Post-Mortem on Post-Modernity Select Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780791429334 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 495. Artikel-Nr. 1210705

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