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The Muse Of History
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Author : Oswyn Murray
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2024-09-10
The Muse Of History written by Oswyn Murray and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-10 with History categories.
How the modern world understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today. The study of ancient Greece has been central to Western conceptions of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which successive generations have reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contemporary worlds. Thus, in the eighteenth century, the conflict between Athens and Sparta became a touchstone in the development of republicanism, and in the nineteenth, Athens came to represent the democratic ideal. Amid the ideological conflicts of the twentieth century, the Greeks were imagined in an age of suffering, inspiring defenses against nationalism, Nazism, communism, and capitalism. Oswyn Murray draws powerful conclusions from this historiography, using the ever-changing narrative of ancient Greece to illuminate grand theories of human society. Analyzing the influence of historians and philosophers including Hegel, Burckhardt, Nietzsche, and Braudel, Murray also considers how coming generations might perceive the Greeks. Along the way, The Muse of History offers rare behind-the-scenes glimpses of figures who shaped the study of ancient Greece, some devotedly cited to this day and others forgotten. We sit in on a class with Arnaldo Momigliano; meet Moses Finley after his arrival in England; eavesdrop on Paul Veyne, Jean-Pierre Vernant, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet; and rediscover Michel Foucault. A thrilling work that rewrites established scholarly traditions and locates important ideas in unexpected places, The Muse of History reminds us that the meaning of the past is always made in and for the present.
The Muse Of History
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Author : Oswyn Murray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
The Muse Of History written by Oswyn Murray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with History categories.
"Oswyn Murray charts the shifting uses of the ancient past, showing how three centuries of scholars interpreted Ancient Greece in the light of contemporary political interests. Rich in stories and portraits of influential thinkers, The Muse of History is a powerful reminder that the meaning of the past is always made in and for the present."--
The Muse Of History And The Science Of Culture
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Author : Robert L. Carneiro
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-05-08
The Muse Of History And The Science Of Culture written by Robert L. Carneiro and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-08 with Social Science categories.
Is history more than (in Boswell's words) a `chronological series of remarkable events'? Does it have a pattern? Is it fraught with `meaning'? Can we discern its trends? What determines its course? In short, can a substantial and coherent philosophy of history be devised that offers answers to these questions? These issues, which have intrigued -and bedeviled - historians for centuries, are explored in this thoughtful book.
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Author : Oswyn Murray
language : en
Publisher: Allen Lane
Release Date : 2024-05-02
The Muse Of History written by Oswyn Murray and has been published by Allen Lane this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-02 with History categories.
How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today The study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which each generation has reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contemporary world, through times of revolution, conflicting ideologies and warfare. It aims to offer a new history of Greek historiography from the Enlightenment to the present, and to acknowledge the continuing spiritual importance of the ancient Greeks for European culture in the twentieth century under totalitarian persecutions. Through the study of different historians, many of them unjustly forgotten, it shows the problematic nature of the Anglo-Saxon tradition and the importance of ideas from the continent of Europe, the ambiguities of democracy, and the impossibility of understanding the past or the present outside our common European heritage. It ends by offering suggestions for the future of the study of the Greeks in the context of world history.
Auden And The Muse Of History
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Author : Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2022-12-13
Auden And The Muse Of History written by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Concentrating on W. H. Auden's work from the late 1930s, when he seeks to understand the poet's responsibility in the face of a triumphant fascism, to the late 1950s, when he discerns an irreconcilable "divorce" between poetry and history in light of industrialized murder, this startling new study reveals the intensity of the poet's struggles with the meanings of history. Through meticulous readings, significant archival findings, and critical reflection, Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb presents a new image and understanding of Auden's achievement and reveals how his version of modernism illuminates urgent contemporary issues and theoretical paradigms: from the meaning of marriage equality to the persistence of fascism; from critical theory to psychoanalysis; from precarity to postcolonial studies. "The muse does not like being forced to choose between Agit-prop and Mallarmé," Auden writes with characteristic lucidity, and this study elucidates the probity, humor, and technical skill with which his responses to historical reality in the mid-twentieth century illuminate our world today.
The Muse Of History And The Science Of Culture
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Author : Robert L. Carneiro
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2000-04-30
The Muse Of History And The Science Of Culture written by Robert L. Carneiro and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-30 with History categories.
Is history more than (in Boswell's words) a `chronological series of remarkable events'? Does it have a pattern? Is it fraught with `meaning'? Can we discern its trends? What determines its course? In short, can a substantial and coherent philosophy of history be devised that offers answers to these questions? These issues, which have intrigued -and bedeviled - historians for centuries, are explored in this thoughtful book.
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Author : Augustine Birrell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
Milton Pope Johnson Burke The Muse Of History Charles Lamb Emerson The Office Of Literature Worn Out Types Cambridge And The Poets Book Buying written by Augustine Birrell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with English literature categories.
A Dark Muse
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Author : Gary Lachman
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2009-09-09
A Dark Muse written by Gary Lachman and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-09 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
The occult was a crucial influence on the Renaissance, and it obsessed the popular thinkers of the day. But with the Age of Reason, occultism was sidelined; only charlatans found any use for it. Occult ideas did not disappear, however, but rather went underground. It developed into a fruitful source of inspiration for many important artists. Works of brilliance, sometimes even of genius, were produced under its influence. In A Dark Muse, Lachman discusses the Enlightenment obsession with occult politics, the Romantic explosion, the futuristic occultism of the fin de sièe, and the deep occult roots of the modernist movement. Some of the writers and thinkers featured in this hidden history of western thought and sensibility are Emanuel Swedenborg, Charles Baudelaire, J. K. Huysmans, August Strindberg, William Blake, Goethe, Madame Blavatsky, H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, and Malcolm Lowry.
Venice And History
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Author : Frederic Chapin Lane
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2020-03-24
Venice And History written by Frederic Chapin Lane and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-24 with History categories.
Originally published in 1966. This book collects papers and essays written by historian Frederic C. Lane, who specialized in medieval Venetian history.
Understanding History
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Author : Jonathan Gorman
language : en
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Release Date : 1992
Understanding History written by Jonathan Gorman and has been published by University of Ottawa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
Has any question about the historical past ever been finally answered? Of course there is much disagreement among professional historians about what happened in the past and how to explain it. But this incisive study goes one step further and brings into question the very ability of historians to gather and communicate genuine knowledge about the past. Understanding History applies this general question from the philosophy of history to economic history of American slaveholders. Do we understand the American slaveholders? Has the last word on the subject been said? Both the alleged "profitability" of slavery and the purported causes of the American Civil War are philosophically analyzed. Traditional narrative history and econometric history are examined and compared, and their different philosophical assumptions made explicit. The problem of justifying historical methodologies is first set in the wider context of the philosophical problem of knowledge, then lucidly explained and resolved along pragmatic lines. The novelty of Gorman's approach lies in its comparison of narrative with econometric history, its analysis of empathetic understanding in terms of cost-benefit analysis, and its elucidation of the metaphysical presuppositions of empiricism. It stands out especially for the clarity, rigor, and simplicity of its arguments.