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Saving Classics Through Truth, Deconstruction, and Critique

Saving Classics Through Truth, Deconstruction, and Critique

Miller, Paul Allen

Hardcover

Series: Theorising the Greek and Roman Classics

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismAncient Rome

ISBN10: 1041397143
ISBN13: 9781041397144
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Classics can only be saved from extinction if we patiently ask ancient texts probing theoretical questions concerning the most urgent topics of our existence--truth, being, desire, gender, and politics--and in the process Classics just might save us.

Why do we need Classics? What does the study of the ancient Mediterranean do for us as individuals and as a society that cannot be done more effectively, even more democratically, by other means? Why do we need to know about the history of the ancient world? Each chapter in this provocative and original book focuses on key theoretical topics, associated ancient texts, and major thinkers in our contemporary world. Miller argues that encounters with these texts allow us to confront in unique ways the basic questions of our lives: what is the nature of truth; what is being; how do understand our desire; how are we gendered; and what should be the nature of our states? Written in an easy, accessible style, this book provides an excellent overview of important theoretical topics, while making the case that ancient texts still speak to our most urgent and pressing issues.

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