Name: Revolution. Modern Uprisings in Ancient Time
SKU: 64743510
Price: 172.33 USD
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Author: Miriam Leonard
ISBN: 9780226843032

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Revolution. Modern Uprisings in Ancient Time

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University of Chicago Press

Autor

Miriam Leonard

Colección

Critical Antiquities

Año

2025

N° páginas

112

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

21.6x14 cm

ISBN13

9780226843032

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A consideration of how modern revolutions have employed tropes of classical antiquity. Despite its Latin etymology, “revolution” in its modern understanding arguably did not exist in antiquity, and revolution as we know it today is considered by many theorists to be a term born in modernity. While they certainly had times of momentous political upheaval, the Greeks and Romans tended to understand such events as part of a narrative of political continuity rather than novelty or rupture. Nevertheless, modern revolutions have repeatedly appropriated tropes of classical discourse, such as freedom, tyranny, tragedy, and fraternity. With this book, Miriam Leonard offers a conceptual history of revolution, unraveling modernity’s yearning for the new and questioning why ancient concepts continue to play such an important role in political uprisings. Leonard looks at examples of appeals to antiquity during the French and Haitian Revolutions, in anticolonial struggles, and feminist and queer movements and considers works of theorists such as Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt, and Sigmund Freud that foreground an engagement with antiquity.