Critical Theory and the Classical World

ISBN-13: 9781138586970 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 202 str.

Martyn Hudson

Opis

This book radically re-examines Europe’s imaginaries of its origin in the ancient Greek world. Extracting central concepts of critical theory in its widest sense, it allies them to characters, mythologies and motifs in ancient thought. An important book for scholars and students of critical theory, social theory, aesthetic theory and the history of the human sciences, it alerts us to the catastrophe that we are facing in the 21^st century - a catastrophe of domination and ecological collapse that has its origins in the ancient world and the ways in which it began to define a certain sense of humanness.

O autorze

Martyn Hudson is Lecturer in Art and Design History at Northumbria University, UK, teaching on the Creative and Cultural Management Masters programme. He is the author of The Slave Ship, Memory and the Origins of Modernity; Species and Machines and Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory.