Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History /

Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History / / ed. by Aaron Turner.

The distinction between ancient and modern modes of historical thought is characterized by the growing complexity of the discipline of history in modernity. Consequently, the epistemological and methodological standard of ancient historiography is typically held as inferior against the modern ideal....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Carr, David,
Clarke, Katherine,
Damtoft Poulsen, Aske,
Grethlein, Jonas,
Hartog, François,
Hemming, Laurence Paul,
Kahane, Ahuvia,
Kennedy, Duncan F.,
Kuin, Inger N. I.,
Meeus, Alexander,
Morley, Neville,
Toner, Jerry,
Tufano, Salvatore,
Turner, Aaron,
HerausgeberIn:
Turner, Aaron,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception , 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 372 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History
  • Part I: Awakening Ancient Historical Consciousness
  • The Territory of the Historian in Antiquity
  • Just Forces: Heidegger, Arendt and Antiquity
  • On not Being Modern: Exploring Historical Ontology with Bruno Latour
  • Truth, Method and the Historian’s Character: The Epistemic Virtues of Greek and Roman Historians
  • The Universal in the Particular: A Core Dilemma of Historicism in Antiquity
  • Part II: Transcending Representation and Reality
  • Teleology with a Human Face: ‘Sideshadowing’ and its Effects in Tacitus’ Treatment of Germanicus (Annals 1–2)
  • Minding the Gap: Mimetic Imperfection and the Historiographical Enterprise
  • The Life of the Biographer: Plutarch’s Presence in Sulla, Antony and Otho
  • Demos, Democracy and Method: Political Trust and the Science of Suspicion
  • Part III: Antiquating Modernity
  • Walter Benjamin and Greek Historiography
  • When Augustus met Adorno: Class, Mimesis and Restoring the Past
  • Teleology and the Experience of History
  • The Limits of Progress and the Modern Problem of Historical Meaning
  • Thucydides and the Historiography of the Future
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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