Modernity's Classics
This book presents critical studies of modern reconfigurations of conceptions of the past, of the 'classical', and of national heritage. Its scope is global (China, India, Egypt, Iran, Judaism, the Greco-Roman world) and inter-disciplinary (textual philology, history of art and architectur...
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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin Heidelberg
Springer
2013
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| Series: | Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-642-33071-1 |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33071-1 Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33071-1 Cover: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz379693992cov.jpg Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz369981073inh.htm Verlag, Inhaltstext: http://deposit.dnb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=4096274&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm 
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| Author Notes: | ed. by Sarah C. Humphreys; Rudolf G. Wagner |
Table of Contents:
- Modernity's Classics; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; The Theme; Premodern Classical Traditions: Common Features; Multiple Traditions; Reconfigurations; The Case Studies; Part I: Anchoring Modernity; Part II: Repositioning Texts; Part III: Reconstructing Pastness; Bibliography; Part I: Anchoring Modernity; Chapter 2: The Making of New Delhi; Classic Pasts, Modern Styles: Imitation, Emulation, Historicization; World Capitals; ``A Scape of Towers Grand as Rome´´; The Classical Made ``Sane for India´´; Bibliography
- Chapter 3: Classics in the Garden: Suppers in an Earthly ParadiseClassics and Transcending Experiences; Villa and Garden as a Paradise on Earth; Villa D´Este as Hesperides and Parnassus; Suppers and Banquets; Christianity and Neoplatonism; Conclusions; Bibliography; Chapter 4: A Classic Paving the Way to Modernity: The Ritual of Zhou in the Chinese Reform Debate Since the Taiping Civil War; The Classics, the State, and Modernity; Reading the Classics and Coping with Asymmetry in Cultural Exchanges: The Historical Record
- BibliographyEditions; Other References; Chapter 8: Phenomenon and Reference: Revisiting Parmenides, Empedocles, and the Problem of Rationalization; Parmenides´ Initiatic Journey; Empedocles and Magic; Bibliography; 1a. Abbreviations; 1b. Primary sources and abbreviations; 2. Secondary sources; Chapter 9: Towards an Anthropology of Reading; Bibliography; Part III: Reconstructing Pastness; Chapter 10: The Ruins of the Others: History and Modernity in Iran; Self-Formation and Intellectual Autonomy; The `Ruins of the Others´; Delineating a Territory; Drawing Ruins; Territorializing Language
- The Cartography of RuinsShiraznama; Ahl-i `ilm; Bibliography; Chapter 11: Making New Classics: The Archaeology of Luo Zhenyu and Victor Segalen; Luo Zhenyu: Politician and Scholar; Victor Segalen: Poet and Archaeologist; The Scientific Project; A Sensual Archaeology; The Great Statuary; Archaeological Excavation: Or a Second of Eternity; From Texts to Sensations: Drawing Visuality into Ancient Archaeology; Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Chapter 12: Homer, Skepticism, and the History of Philology; Samuel Butler and the Mimesis of Philology
- The Appeal to the Real: Imaging and Imagining Homer
- Part I: Anchoring Modernity
- The Making of New Delhi. Classical Aesthetics, “Oriental” Tradition and Architectural Practice: a Transcultural View
- Classics in the Garden: Suppers in an Earthly Paradise
- A Classic Paving the Way to Modernity: The Ritual of Zhou in the Chinese Reform Debate since the Taiping Civil War
- Modernity’s Islamicist: Sayyid Qutb’s Theocentric Reconstruction of Sovereignty
- Part II: Repositioning Texts
- Classical Scholarship and Arab Modernity
- The Septuagint as a Jewish Classic
- Phenomenon and Reference: Revisiting Parmenides, Empedocles, and the Problem of Rationalization
- Towards an Anthropology of Reading
- Part III: Reconstructing Pastness
- The Ruins of the Others: History and Modernity in Iran
- Making New Classics: the Archaeology of Luo Zhenyu and Victor Segalen
- Homer, Skepticism, and the History of Philology
- Naked Presence and Disciplinary Wording
- Middling Ages and Living Relics as Objects to Think with: Two Figures of the Historical Imagination.