The birth of critical thinking in Republican Rome /
In this classic work, now appearing in English for the first time, Claudia Moatti analyses the intellectual transformation that occurred at the end of the Roman Republic in response both to the political crisis and to the city's expansion across the Mediterranean. This was a period of great cul...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the French. Translation of La raison de Rome: naissance de l'esprit critique à la fin de la République (IIe-Ier siècle avant Jésus-Christ) published by Seuil in 1997. |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2015]
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| Edition: | English edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Malcolm Schofield
- Preface
- Introduction to the English edition: Roman culture in movement
- 1. Crises and questionings
- 2. Opening up the world: the birth of curiosity
- 3. From disarray to erudition
- 4. The experience of thought
- 5. A discourse on the method, or the spirit of forms
- 6. The construction of Roman universality
- 7. Conclusion: the territories of reason.