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<br> <strong>Classical Presences</strong><br> Series Editors: <strong>Lorna Hardwick</strong>, Professor of Classical Studies, Open University, and <strong>James I. Porter, Professor of Greek, Latin, and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan</strong> <p>The texts, ideas, images, and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome have always been crucial to attempts to appropriate the past in order to authenticate the present. They underlie the mapping of change and the assertion and challenging of values and identities, old and new. <em>Classical</em> <em>Presences</em> brings the latest scholarship to bear on the contexts, theory, and practice of such use, and abuse, of the classical past.</p> <p><em>Athens in Paris</em> explores the ways in which the writings of the ancient Greeks played a decisive part in shaping the intellectual projects of structuralism and post-structuralism--arguably the most significant currents of thought of the post-war era. Miriam Leonard argues that thinkers in post-war France turned to the example of Athenian democracy in their debates over the role of political subjectivity and ethical choice in the life of the modern citizen. The authors she i

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Author

Miriam Leonard

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429430784

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Literary Criticism