Title Humans, among other classical animals / Ashley Clements

Edition First edition Published Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series Postclassical interventions Postclassical interventions Contents Prologue -- 1: Horsing around the Americas -- 2: Analogous Apes -- 3: Breathless Beasts and Stuffed Savages -- 4: From Organic Societies to Unnatural Lives -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "We are living in a moment of environmental and existential crisis that demands a response. Why then study Classics now? From the European assimilation and destruction of the New World to our present environmental destruction of our shared world, Humans, among Other Classical Animals explores in encounters an answer by demonstrating how the Classics have been implicated in the structures of thought that have ultimately led us to our present historical moment. Telling the story of anthropology's Classical entanglements from its inception to its growth to critical self-awareness, it demonstrates that Classical ideas have played a crucial -and often deleterious- role in the Western placing of the human and in the discipline that claimed the study of humanity as its own. Responses to our present crisis, it argues, should therefore include as a prerequisite, considering the origins and implications of these Classical foundations because only by so doing can we attain the full self-awareness necessary to think beyond them and consider the alternatives we now need. Postclassical Interventions aims to reorient the meaning of antiquity across and beyond the humanities. Building on the success of Classical Presences, this complementary series features shorter-length monographs designed to provoke debate about the current and future potential of Classical Reception through fresh, bold, and critical thinking."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 28, 2022) Subject Civilization, Western -- Classical influences. Civilization, Classical -- Study and teaching Philosophy, Ancient. Ecology -- Philosophy. Human beings -- Philosophy Civilization, Western Civilization, Western -- Classical influences Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192668684 0192668684 9780192668677 0192668676 9780191946387 0191946389

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