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The realness of things past : ancient Greece and ontological history /

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The Realness of Things Past proposes a new paradigm of historical practice. It questions the way we conventionally historicize the experiences of non-modern peoples, western and non-western, and makes the case for an alternative. It shows how our standard analytical devices impose modern, dualist me...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson, Greg, 1962- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Greece > History > Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C. > Historiography.
History > Philosophy.
Grèce > Histoire > 479-431 av. J.-C. (Apogée d'Athènes) > Historiographie.
Histoire > Philosophie.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Historiography
History > Philosophy
Greece
479-431 B.C.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.