Critical Theory and the Classical World

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Critical Theory and the Classical World
1. Out of the Ancient Earth
2. Marx, Epicurus and the Classical World
3.: Mnemosyne: Art, Memory, Objects
4. Human: Troy
5. Force: Achilles
6. Enlightenment: Odysseus
7. Cosmos: The Classical Gods
8. Spirit: The Classical Statue
9. Domination: The Atreides
References
Index

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Martyn Hudson, Martyn (Northumbria University Hudson, Hudson Martyn
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780367897222
• ISBN: 978-0-367-89722-2
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General