Expressions Of Fear From Antiquity To The Contemporary World

Author : Ana-Cristina Halichias,Maria-Luiza Dumitru Oancea,Nicolae-Andrei Popa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443896467

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Expressions of Fear from Antiquity to the Contemporary World by Ana-Cristina Halichias,Maria-Luiza Dumitru Oancea,Nicolae-Andrei Popa Pdf

The volume offers a timely discussion of the feeling of fear, adopting a diachronic and complex perspective, taking into account its various forms, including its literary, mythological, anthropological, psychoanalytical, etymological, philosophical, theological, and historiographical representations, among others. It tackles the concept of fear in a range of time periods in cultural and literary history, from the Archaic Period and Greco-Roman Classical Antiquity to the modern and postmodern periods. As such, the volume marks an extremely relevant contribution to scholarship in the humanities, and will be of interest to scholars, professors, and students, as well as anyone interested in the analysis of profound human feelings.

Author : Doreen Bauschke,Anna Klambauer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004382381

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The Sense and Sensibility of Madness by Doreen Bauschke,Anna Klambauer Pdf

This volume explores the sense and sensibility of madness in literature and the arts. As madwomen and madmen venture into unchartered or prohibited terrain, they disrupt normalcy. Yet, they may also unleash the liberatory and transformative potential of unrestrained madness.

Author : Dalida Agri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Epic poetry, Latin
ISBN : 9780192859303

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Reading Fear in Flavian Epic by Dalida Agri Pdf

This book examines the textual representations of emotions, fear in particular, through the lens of Stoic thought and their impact on depictions of power, gender, and agency. It first draws attention to the role and significance of fear, and cognate emotions, in the tyrant's psyche, and then goes on to explore how these emotions, in turn, shape the wider narratives. The focus is on the lengthy epics of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Statius' Thebaid, and Silius Italicus' Punica. All three poems are obsessed with men in power with no power over themselves, a marked concern that carries a strong Senecan fingerprint. Seneca's influence on post-Neronian epic can be felt beyond his plays. His Epistles and other prose works prove particularly illuminating for each of the poet's gendered treatment of the relationship between power and emotion. By adopting a Roman Stoic perspective, both philosophical and cultural, this study brings together a cluster of major ideas to draw meaningful connections and unlock new readings.

Author : Paul Katsafanas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000990744

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Fanaticism and the History of Philosophy by Paul Katsafanas Pdf

Voltaire called fanaticism the "monster that pretends to be the child of religion". Philosophers, politicians, and cultural critics have decried fanaticism and attempted to define the distinctive qualities of the fanatic, whom Winston Churchill described as "someone who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject". Yet despite fanaticism’s role in the long history of social discord, human conflict, and political violence, it remains a relatively neglected topic in the history of philosophy. In this outstanding inquiry into the philosophical history of fanaticism, a team of international contributors examine the topic from antiquity to the present day. Organized into four sections, topics covered include: Fanaticism in ancient Greek, Indian, and Chinese philosophy; Fanaticism and superstition from Hobbes to Hume, including chapters on Locke and Montesquieu, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson; Kant, Germaine de Stael, Hegel, Nietzsche, William James, and Jorge Portilla on fanaticism; Fanaticism and terrorism; and extremism and gender, including the philosophy and morality of the "manosphere"; Closed-mindedness and political and epistemological fanaticism. Spanning themes from superstition, enthusiasm, and misanthropy to the emotions, purity, and the need for certainty, Fanaticism and the History of Philosophy is a landmark volume for anyone researching and teaching the history of philosophy, particularly ethics and moral philosophy. It is also a valuable resource for those studying fanaticism in related fields such as religion, the history of political thought, sociology, and the history of ideas.

Author : Carmen Zamorano Llena,Jonas Stier,Billy Gray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000916898

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Crisis and the Culture of Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Europe by Carmen Zamorano Llena,Jonas Stier,Billy Gray Pdf

The accruement of crises over the last two decades, with their particular manifestations in the European context, has evoked the feeling of living in exceptional times, as captured in the recurrent claim that we live in the "age of anxiety." The main aim of this collection is to analyse, from a multidisciplinary perspective, the causes and consequences of the current dominance of the discourse of fear, anxiety, and crisis through the experience of distinct and often interdependent moral panics in twenty-first-century Europe. With its multidisciplinary approach, this volume sheds light on the need to view the interrelationship between different crises and their associated affects as crucial in attaining a more nuanced understanding of the aetiology and effects of the current "age of anxiety." This multidisciplinary scrutiny of the interrelationship of twenty-first-century fears, anxiety and crises signals an original engagement with these complex phenomena in order to make their emergence and profound effects on contemporary society more comprehensible. The timeliness of the thematic focus and the rigorous in-depth analyses make this collection relevant to students and academics within the fields of sociology, literary and cultural studies, political science and anthropology, as well as to those in European studies and global studies.

Author : Gerardo Zampaglione
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0268004706

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The Idea of Peace in Antiquity by Gerardo Zampaglione Pdf

Author : Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812208405

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Ethnography After Antiquity by Anthony Kaldellis Pdf

Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the seventh century C.E.—a perplexing exception for a culture so strongly self-identified with the Roman empire. Yet the Byzantines, geographically located at the heart of the upheavals that led from the ancient to the modern world, had abundant and sophisticated knowledge of the cultures with which they struggled and bargained. Ethnography After Antiquity examines both the instances and omissions of Byzantine ethnography, exploring the political and religious motivations for writing (or not writing) about other peoples. Through the ethnographies embedded in classical histories, military manuals, Constantine VII's De administrando imperio, and religious literature, Anthony Kaldellis shows Byzantine authors using accounts of foreign cultures as vehicles to critique their own state or to demonstrate Romano-Christian superiority over Islam. He comes to the startling conclusion that the Byzantines did not view cultural differences through a purely theological prism: their Roman identity, rather than their orthodoxy, was the vital distinction from cultures they considered heretic and barbarian. Filling in the previously unexplained gap between antiquity and the resurgence of ethnography in the late Byzantine period, Ethnography After Antiquity offers new perspective on how Byzantium positioned itself with and against the dramatically shifting world.

Author : Samir Dasgupta,Ray Kiely
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761935061

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Globalization and After by Samir Dasgupta,Ray Kiely Pdf

Addresses many questions concerning the form of globalisation, such as: Does globalization involve integration on a worldwide scale or will there be a levelling off or even a reversal? Is there an alternative to globalization? This work explores the tensions and dilemmas inherent in globalization, from local, national and global perspectives.

Author : John G. Dellis,Stephanos A. Paipetis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527533387

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The Influence of Hellenic Philosophy on the Contemporary World by John G. Dellis,Stephanos A. Paipetis Pdf

This book consists of 21 papers on the influence of Ancient Greek philosophy on the contemporary world. It covers such areas as history, economy, art and architecture, mythology and the Riddle of Tartessus, along with an introductory essay by Professor P. Pavlopoulos, the President of the Hellenic Republic. The volume discusses a great variety of topics, including the contribution of the ancient Greek spirit to the development of contemporary western civilization, a conflict between Newton and Democritus, the side effects of natural disasters from classical Antiquity until the present day, and the contribution of ancient Greece to neuroscience. Contributions also explore the genetic origin of the Greeks, the influence of Ancient Greek architecture on neoclassical facades, the myth of Theseus, Hephaestus, and the Smith God of the Two Lame Legs. This book will be an essential resource for philosophers, philologists, educators, archaeologists, historians, and the lay reader with an interest in Ancient Greece.

Author : Rüdiger Schnell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110692464

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Histories of Emotion by Rüdiger Schnell Pdf

This study addresses two desiderata of historical emotion research: reflecting on the interdependence of textual functions and the representation of emotions, and acknowledging the interdependence of studies on the premodern and modern periods in the history of emotion. Contemporary research on the history of emotion is characterised by a proliferation of studies on very different eras, authors, themes, texts, and aspects. The enthusiasm and confidence with which situations, actions, and interactions involving emotions in history are discovered, however, has led to overly direct attempts to access the represented objects (emotions/feelings/affects); as a result, too little attention has been paid to the conditions and functions of their representations. That is why this study engages with the emotion research of historians from an unashamedly philological perspective. Such an approach provides, among other things, insights into the varied, often contradictory, observations that can be made about the history of emotion in modernity and premodernity.

Author : Ronit Milano
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004276253

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The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century by Ronit Milano Pdf

In The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century, Ronit Milano probes the aesthetic and intellectual charge of a remarkably concise art form, and its role in the construction of modern identity, during a seismic moment in French history.

Author : J. Arnold,S. Brady
Publisher : Springer
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230307254

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What is Masculinity? by J. Arnold,S. Brady Pdf

Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women. This book analyses the dynamics of 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experience - how men have tried, and failed, to be 'Real Men'.

Author : Andreas Marklund,Laura Skouvig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000401387

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Histories of Surveillance from Antiquity to the Digital Era by Andreas Marklund,Laura Skouvig Pdf

Deploying empirical studies spanning from early Imperial China to the present day, 17 scholars from across the globe explore the history of surveillance with special attention to the mechanisms of power that impel the concept of surveillance in society. By delving into a broad range of historical periods and contexts, the book sheds new light on surveillance as a societal phenomenon, offering 10 in-depth, applied analyses that revolve around two main questions: • Who are the central actors in the history of surveillance? • What kinds of phenomena have been deemed eligible for surveillance, for example, information flows, political movements, border-crossing trade, interacting with foreign states, workplace relations, gender relations, andsexuality?

Author : Jakub Filonik,Christine Plastow,Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000847833

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Citizenship in Antiquity by Jakub Filonik,Christine Plastow,Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz Pdf

Citizenship in Antiquity brings together scholars working on the multifaceted and changing dimensions of citizenship in the ancient Mediterranean, from the second millennium BCE to the first millennium CE, adopting a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. The chapters in this volume cover numerous periods and regions – from the Ancient Near East, through the Greek and Hellenistic worlds and pre-Roman North Africa, to the Roman Empire and its continuations, and with excursuses to modernity. The contributors to this book adopt various contemporary theories, demonstrating the manifold meanings and ways of defining the concept and practices of citizenship and belonging in ancient societies and, in turn, of non-citizenship and non-belonging. Whether citizenship was defined by territorial belonging or blood descent, by privileged or exclusive access to resources or participation in communal decision-making, or by a sense of group belonging, such identifications were also open to discursive redefinitions and manipulation. Citizenship and belonging, as well as non-citizenship and non-belonging, had many shades and degrees; citizenship could be bought or faked, or even removed. By casting light on different areas of the Mediterranean over the course of antiquity, the volume seeks to explore this multi-layered notion of citizenship and contribute to an ongoing and relevant discourse. Citizenship in Antiquity offers a wide-ranging, comprehensive collection suitable for students and scholars of citizenship, politics, and society in the ancient Mediterranean world, as well as those working on citizenship throughout history interested in taking a comparative approach.

Author : Alex Houen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108424516

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Affect and Literature by Alex Houen Pdf

Explores a wide range of affects, affect theory, and literature to consolidate a fresh understanding of literary affect.