The realness of things past : ancient Greece and ontological history /
To make the case for this alternative paradigm, the book engages with currents of thought in many different intellectual provinces, from anthropology and postcolonial studies to the sociology of science and quantum physics. And to demonstrate how the new paradigm might work in practice, it uses clas...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : retrieving a lost world of the past
- Our Athenian yesterdays
- A world of contradictions
- Missing objects
- Historicism and its consequences
- Beyond cultural history
- Other ways of being human
- The anomalous foundations of modern being
- Ethnographies of the present
- Ontological history
- The metaphysics of polis community
- Governed by gods
- The cells of the social body
- Living as one liked
- The cares of a corporate self
- The circulation of life's resources
- Being in a different world
- Conclusion : new horizons of history and critique.