9781893554030 - greek ways: how the greeks created western civilization von thornton, bruce s. (5 Ergebnisse)
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Zustand: Gut. 242 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed dust jacket with small tear on cover, staining on bottom edge, otherwise very good. / Leicht beriebener Schutzumschlag mit kleinem Riss am vorderen Deckel, Ver…schmutzung auf Fußschnitt, sonst sehr gut. - Nearly 70 years ago, Edith Hamilton published The Greek Way, an immediate classic that educated two generations of readers about the debt we owe the handful of Greek city-states that developed the spirit of the West some 2500 years ago. Now, in Greek Ways, Bruce Thornton has written a book that is for our time what Hamiltons was for a prior eraa reassertion of the Greeks crucial role in creating Western civilization and in developing the core concepts that continue to shape our assumptions about human identity and human good. Why must the Greeks be defended anew, particularly when their ideas about personal freedom, the ideal of consensual government, and the rational pursuit of knowledge have been so clearly vindicated by recent history? Because a coterie of contemporary academics, following the fads of multiculturalism and postmodernism, have subjected the Greeksand Western civilization itselfto a wholesale reinterpretation. Didnt the Greeks oppress their women and keep slaves, even while talking about liberty and equality? Didnt they perfect the art of war while talking about the art of politics? Didnt they explore the dark Dionysian side of experience while extolling the primacy of reason? Thornton responds that the crimes of the Greeks were the crimes of humanity everywhere, but that their ideals, still alive today, were unique to them. After all, it was the Greeks who first began to recognize a common humanity that was more important than gender or social status, more profound than local or tribal affiliations. Without that recognition of a common humanity, he writes, slavery might never have been abolished in the West, women might never have been granted equality (as they still have not in some non-Western countries) and the liberal notion of innate rights possessed by all humans merely as a virtue of being human would never have existed. But this book goes beyond rescuing the Greeks from modern critics and their discontents. Greek Ways is above all an impassioned act of scholarship covering a wide range of worksfrom Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle and Demosthenes in a fascinating discussion about the nature of sex, love, war, politics and philosophy in ancient Greece. Thornton shows what Greeks actually said about these subjects, and, more importantly, what their ideas have meant for the West. By the end of this brilliant narrative, the reader will find it difficult to disagree with Bruce Thornton that the course the Greeks charted for humanity is the one that has the best likelihood, on this earth and in this life at least, of leading us to our highest fulfillment as human beings. His achievement in Greek Ways is to hold a steady mirror up to Greek culture and allow us to see ourselves. - Bruce Thornton is professor of classics and humanities and chairman of the Foreign Language Department at California State University at Fresno. His previous books are Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality and Plagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge. ISBN 9781893554030 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 602 Original cloth with dust jacket.
