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Modernity's Classics

Modernity's Classics

Wagner, Rudolf G.
Humphreys, Sarah C.

Paperback

Series: Transcultural Research - Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Euro

Literary CriticismAnthropologyArchaeology

ISBN10: 3642330703
ISBN13: 9783642330704
Publisher: Springer
Published: Feb 7 2013
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Part I: Anchoring Modernity.- The Making of New Delhi. Classical Aesthetics, Oriental Tradition and Architectural Practice: a Transcultural View.- Classics in the Garden: Suppers in an Earthly Paradise.- A Classic Paving the Way to Modernity: The Ritual of Zhou in the Chinese Reform Debate since the Taiping Civil War.- Modernity's Islamicist: Sayyid Qutb's Theocentric Reconstruction of Sovereignty.- Part II: Repositioning Texts.- Classical Scholarship and Arab Modernity.- The Septuagint as a Jewish Classic.- Phenomenon and Reference: Revisiting Parmenides, Empedocles, and the Problem of Rationalization.- Towards an Anthropology of Reading.- Part III: Reconstructing Pastness.- The Ruins of the Others: History and Modernity in Iran.- Making New Classics: the Archaeology of Luo Zhenyu and Victor Segalen.- Homer, Skepticism, and the History of Philology.- Naked Presence and Disciplinary Wording.- Middling Ages and Living Relics as Objects to Think with: Two Figures of the Historical Imagination.

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