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Salvatore Settis - The Future of the Classical - 9780745635996 - V9780745635996
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The Future of the Classical

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Description for The Future of the Classical Paperback. Every era has invented a different idea of the 'classical' to create its own identity. Thus the 'classical' does not concern only the past: it is also concerned with the present and a vision of the future. Num Pages: 104 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
Every era has invented a different idea of the ‘classical’ to create its own identity. Thus the ‘classical’ does not concern only the past: it is also concerned with the present and a vision of the future.

In this elegant new book, Salvatore Settis traces the ways in which we have related to our ‘classical’ past, starting with post-modern American skyscrapers and working his way back through our cultural history to the attitudes of the Greeks and Romans themselves.

Settis argues that this obsession with cultural decay, ruins and a ‘classical’ past is specifically European and the ... Read more

In the Modern Era this emulation of the ‘ancients’ by the ‘moderns’ was accompanied by new trends: the increasing belief that the former had now been surpassed by the latter, and an increasing preference for the Greek over the Roman. These conflicting interpretations were as much about the future as they were about the past. No civilization can invent itself if it does not have other societies in other times and other places to act as benchmarks.

Settis argues that we will be better equipped to mould new generations for the future once we understand that the ‘classical’ is not a dead culture we inherited and for which we can take no credit, but something startling that has to be re-created every day and is a powerful spur to understanding the ‘other’.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745635996
SKU
V9780745635996
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About Salvatore Settis
S. Settis, Director, Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa

Reviews for The Future of the Classical
"Ably rendered into accessible English and intended for a broad readership both within classical studies and outside the field. It is an excellent, thought-provoking essay." James Porter, Journal of Roman Studies "A thought-provoking and very readable book, especially in light of the recent debate regarding the future of the Ancient History A-Level." ... Read more

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