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Telling, Turning Moments in the Classical Political World

Author : Jan H. Blits
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073916449X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Telling, Turning Moments in the Classical Political World written by Jan H. Blits and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning, Telling Moments in the Classical Political World examines developments in the classical political world which are both turning and telling moments. All the moments--from Theseus's founding of Athens to Augustus's establishment of the Principate--possess the double character of being turning points and revealing fundamental aspects of the ancient political world. While most books on ancient history are chiefly concerned with questions of literary sources and historical accuracy, this book deals with the significance of the facts and reports themselves. Blits treats the ancient histories as works of reflection rather than works of research. Instead of focusing on whether, or how, the ancient historians meet the professional standards of present-day historiography, Blits reveals the way they themselves understand-and intend us to understand-the ancient world.

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585109029
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book The Tragedy of Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan Blits' edition represents something new among editions of Julius Caesar. In addition to textual glosses and explanatory notes focused on the rhetorical, historical, and political contexts of the speeches, it includes a wide array of quotations and citations from writers of classical antiquity chosen to illuminate passages of special pertinence to the Roman world represented in the play. Highlighting Shakespeare's significance as a political thinker, it also demonstrates his deep understanding of Roman antiquity, its competing worldviews, and the demise of its Republic. Intended for a broad readership, the edition also includes a Preface, Introduction, Bibliography, and a topical Index.

The Tragedy of Coriolanus

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585109614
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book The Tragedy of Coriolanus written by William Shakespeare and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for a wide audience, Jan Blits’s edition of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Coriolanus differs from other such editions by focusing upon ancient sources to highlight the play’s setting during the founding of the Roman Republic. In doing so it sheds new light on both the action of the play and the historical and political significance of its setting.

Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire, 150 BC to AD 600

Author : Jaakkojuhani Peltonen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429850549
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire, 150 BC to AD 600 written by Jaakkojuhani Peltonen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Alexander the Great began to be retold from the moment of his death. The Greco-Roman authors used these stories as exemplars in a variety of ways. This book is concerned with the various stories of Alexander and how they were used in antiquity to promote certain policies, religious views, and value systems. The book is an original contribution to the study of the history and reception of Alexander, analysing the writings of over 70 classical and post-classical authors during a period of over 700 years. Drawing on this extensive range and quantity of material, the study plots the continuity and change of ideas from the early Roman Empire to the early Middle Ages.

At the Crossroads of Greco-Roman History, Culture, and Religion

Author : Sinclair W. Bell
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789690145
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book At the Crossroads of Greco-Roman History, Culture, and Religion written by Sinclair W. Bell and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers in honour of Carin M. C. Green (1948-2015) are presented under 3 headings: (1) Greek philosophy, history, and historiography; (2) Latin literature, history, and historiography; and (3) Greco-Roman material culture, religion, and literature

The Heart of Rome

Author : Jan H. Blits
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739189212
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Heart of Rome written by Jan H. Blits and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book examine the political activities and institutions of pre-Imperial Rome in conjunction with the habits of the hearts and the minds of the Romans. Relying on the writings of ancient authors, the essays analyze significant political developments and events. They attempt to draw out the meaning of what the authors say and impose no theory on the ancient writings. Nor do they pursue the methodological techniques of contemporary historiography. While avoiding such common present-day anachronisms, they take their guidance directly from the ancient historians themselves and examine their understanding of Rome’s political history and culture. Harking back to the ancient view that a political culture or regime is both a city’s form of government and its way of life, the essays, trying to be true to the full character of Roman political life, seek to understand the political activities and the souls of the Romans, and to understand each in the light of the other.

Trump and Political Philosophy

Author : Angel Jaramillo Torres
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319744453
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Trump and Political Philosophy written by Angel Jaramillo Torres and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to recover from ancient and modern thinkers valuable arguments about statesmanship, leadership, and tyranny which illuminate reassessments of political science and practice after the election of Donald Trump. Like almost everyone else, contemporary political scientists were blind-sided by the rise of Trump. No one expected a candidate to win who repeatedly violated both political norms and the conventional wisdom about campaign best practices. Yet many of the puzzles that Trump’s rise presents have been examined by the great political philosophers of the past. For example, it would come as no surprise to Plato that by its very emphasis on popularity, democracy creates the potential for tyranny via demagoguery. And, perhaps no problem is more alien to empirical political science than asking if statesmanship entails virtue or if so, in what that virtue consists: This is a theme treated by Plato, Aristotle, and Machiavelli, among others. Covering a range of thinkers such as Confucius, Plutarch, Kant, Tocqueville, and Deleuze, the essays in this book then seek to place the rise of Trump and the nature of his political authority within a broader institutional context than is possible for mainstream political science.

Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from the Great War through the Cold War

Author : Jonathan Rosenberg
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393608433
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from the Great War through the Cold War written by Jonathan Rosenberg and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Juilliard-trained musician and professor of history explores the fascinating entanglement of classical music with American foreign relations. Dangerous Melodies vividly evokes a time when classical music stood at the center of twentieth-century American life, occupying a prominent place in the nation’s culture and politics. The work of renowned conductors, instrumentalists, and singers—and the activities of orchestras and opera companies—were intertwined with momentous international events, especially the two world wars and the long Cold War. Jonathan Rosenberg exposes the politics behind classical music, showing how German musicians were dismissed or imprisoned during World War I, while numerous German compositions were swept from American auditoriums. He writes of the accompanying impassioned protests, some of which verged on riots, by soldiers and ordinary citizens. Yet, during World War II, those same compositions were no longer part of the political discussion, while Russian music, especially Shostakovich’s, was used as a tool to strengthen the US-Soviet alliance. During the Cold War, accusations of communism were leveled against members of the American music community, while the State Department sent symphony orchestras to play around the world, even performing behind the Iron Curtain. Rich with a stunning array of composers and musicians, including Karl Muck, Arturo Toscanini, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Kirsten Flagstad, Aaron Copland, Van Cliburn, and Leonard Bernstein, Dangerous Melodies delves into the volatile intersection of classical music and world politics to reveal a tumultuous history of twentieth-century America.

Transforming World Politics

Author : Anna M. Agathangelou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135979952
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Transforming World Politics written by Anna M. Agathangelou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critiques neo-liberalism and provides an alternative understanding of contemporary world politics by arguing that the neo-liberal approach to international relations is deeply flawed, reproducing violence, instability, insecurity and marginalization.

Now and Rome

Author : Ika Willis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441196269
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Now and Rome written by Ika Willis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now and Rome is about the way that sovereign power regulates the movement of information and the movement of bodies through space and time. Through a series of readings of three key Latin literary texts alongside six contemporary cultural theorists, Ika Willis argues for an understanding of sovereignty as a system which enforces certain rules for legibility, transmission and circulation on both information and bodies, redefining the relationship between the 'virtual' and the 'material'. This book is both innovative and important in that it brings together several key strands in recent thinking about sovereignty, history, space, and telecommunications, especially in the way it brings together 'textual' theories (reception, deconstruction) with political and spatial thinking. It also serves as a much-needed crossing-point between Classical Studies and cultural theory.

China’s Literary and Cultural Scenes at the Turn of the 21st Century

Author : Jie Lu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131796974X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book China’s Literary and Cultural Scenes at the Turn of the 21st Century written by Jie Lu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s literary and cultural production at the turn of the twenty-first century is marked by heterogeneity, plurality, and diversity. Given its complexity, the literary/cultural production of this period perhaps can be understood most productively as a response to a global modernity that has touched and transformed all aspects of contemporary Chinese reality. The eleven essays in this book offer an introduction to some of the most important works published at the turn of the twenty-first century. In combining textual analysis of specific works with theoretical insights, and in locating the texts in their sociocultural and socioeconomic contexts, the essays explore key theoretical issues and intellectual concerns of the time. They collectively draw a broad contour of new developments, major trends, and radical changes, capturing the intellectual and cultural Zeitgeist of the age. All in all, these essays offer new theoretical approaches to, and critical perspectives on, contemporary Chinese literature and culture.

Deleuzian Events

Author : Hanjo Berressem
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643101740
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Deleuzian Events written by Hanjo Berressem and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2009 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deleuzian Events: Writing / History brings together articles that deal with Gilles Deleuze's concept of "the event," many of them written by leading Deleuze scholars. The eminently transdisciplinary collection relates the Deleuzian event to the larger cultural field, addressing not only the philosophy of the event, but also its history, its politics and its presence in the arts. Among the variety of topics are zeta-physics, modern dance and postcolonial history. It is indispensable reading for anyone interested in how to make Deleuzian philosophy a productive force within contemporary life.

Capitalism and Its Uncertain Future

Author : Kristin Plys
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000429571
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Capitalism and Its Uncertain Future written by Kristin Plys and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, Charles Lemert has been the leading voice in social theory. In Capitalism and its Uncertain Future he teams up with one of the most creative emerging social theorists, Kristin Plys, to examine how social theory imagines capitalism. This engaging and innovative book provides new perspectives on well known theorists from Adam Smith, and Frantz Fanon, to Gilles Deleuze, while also introducing readers to lesser known theorists such as Lucia Sanchez Saornil, Mohammad Ali El Hammi, and many more. The book examines theories of capitalism from four perspectives: macro-historical theories of the origins of capitalism; postcolonial theories of capitalism that situate capitalism as seen from the Global South; theories of capitalism from the perspective of labor; and prospective theories of capitalism’s uncertain future. This provocative and ambitious, yet accessible, perspective on theories of capitalism will be of interest to anyone who wants to explore where we’ve been and where we’re headed.

Speculating on the Moment

Author : Nicholas Rennie
Publisher : Wallstein Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783892449683
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Speculating on the Moment written by Nicholas Rennie and published by Wallstein Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coping and Conformity in World Politics

Author : Hugh C. Dyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135182302
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Coping and Conformity in World Politics written by Hugh C. Dyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the conceptual frameworks of coping and conformity to provide a new analysis of the ethical and political demands of international life. The book also aims to address wider issues of freedom and necessity, individualism and communitarianism and cosmopolitanism, agency and structure, and the legitimacy of governance and institutions

The Legacy of Leo Strauss

Author : Tony Burns
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845406613
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Leo Strauss written by Tony Burns and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Strauss was a political philosopher who died in 1973 but came to came to prominent attention in the United States and also Britain around the beginning of the War in Iraq. Charges began emerging that architects of the war such as Paul Wolfowitz and large numbers of staff in the US State and Defense Departments had studied with, or been influenced by, the academic work of Strauss and his followers. A vague, but powerful, idea was generated in the popular press that a group known as the Straussians had been instrumental in the long-range strategic planning of American foreign policy, both to advance American interests and to encourage democratic revolutions outside the West. This volume of essays opens up the topic of Leo Strauss and the Straussians to those outside the relatively narrow circles who have been concerned with him and his followers up to now.

Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research

Author : Daniel Beland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019981337X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research written by Daniel Beland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing about ideas, John Maynard Keynes noted that they are "more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else." One would expect, therefore, that political science--a discipline that focuses specifically on the nature of power--would have a healthy respect for the role of ideas. However, for a variety of reasons--not least of which is the influence of rational choice theory, which presumes that individuals are self-maximizing rational actors--this is not the case, and the literature on the topic is fairly thin. As the stellar cast of contributors to this volume show, ideas are in fact powerful shapers of political and social life. In Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research, Daniel Béland and Robert Henry Cox have gathered leading scholars from a variety of subdisciplines in political science and sociology to provide a general overview of the theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues raised by social science research on ideas and politics. Throughout, they hone in on three central questions. What is the theoretical basis for studying ideas in politics? What are the best methods? What sort of empirical puzzles can be solved by examining ideas and related phenomena such as discourse, policy paradigms, and framing processes? In sum, this is a state-of-the-art academic work on both the role of ideas in politics and the analytical utility that derives from studying them.