208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book radically re-examines Europe’s imaginaries of its origin in the ancient Greek world. Extracting central concepts of critical theory in its widest sense - beyond the Frankfurt School - like the human, force, spirit and domination, it allies them to characters, mythologies and motifs in ancient thought. Just as the stories of Achilles, Helen and Odysseus have become central to our modes... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Critical Theory and the Classical World
1. Out of the Ancient Earth
2. Marx, Epicurus and the Classical World
3.: Mnemosyne: Art, Memory, Objects
4. Human: Troy
5. Force: Achilles
6. Enlightenment: Odysseus
7. Cosmos: The Classical Gods
8. Spirit: The Classical Statue
9. Domination: The Atreides
References
Index
Biography
Martyn Hudson is Lecturer in Art and Design History at Northumbria University, UK, teaching on the Creative and Cultural Management Masters programme. He is the author of The Slave Ship, Memory and the Origins of Modernity; Species and Machines and Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory.
