1st Edition
Saving Classics through Truth, Deconstruction, and Critique
By Paul Allen Miller
Copyright 2027
104 Pages
by
Routledge
Classics can only be saved from extinction if we patiently ask ancient texts probing theoretical questions concerning the most urgent topics of our existence—truth, being, desire, gender and politics—and in the process Classics just might save us.
Why do we need Classics? What does the study of the ancient Mediterranean do for us as individuals and as a society that cannot be done more... Read more
Introduction; 1. Truth: Foucault, Ancient Philosophy, and the Possibility of Another Life; 2. Being: Derrida, the Philebus, and the Timaeus; 3. Desire: Psychoanalysis, Oedipus, and Antigone; 4. Gender: Butler, Feminism, and the Puella as Trans; 5. Politics: Cicero and the Social Republic.
Biography
Paul Allen Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina. He has published thirteen books, including Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness, Subjecting Verses, Postmodern Spiritual Practices, and Diotima at the Barricades, as well as edited collections and articles concerning Classics and Theory.
