
Humans, among Other Classical Animals
Ashley Clements(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 16. December 2021
Book
Hardback
162 pages
978-0-19-285609-8 (ISBN)
Description
We are living in a moment of environmental and existential crisis that demands a response. Why then study Classics now? From the European assimilation and destruction of the New World to our present environmental destruction of our shared world, Humans, among Other Classical Animals explores in encounters an answer by demonstrating how the Classics have been implicated in the structures of thought that have ultimately led us to our present historical moment. Telling the story of anthropology's Classical entanglements from its inception to its growth to critical self-awareness, it demonstrates that Classical ideas have played a crucial -and often deleterious- role in the Western placing of the human and in the discipline that claimed the study of humanity as its own. Responses to our present crisis, it argues, should therefore include as a prerequisite, considering the origins and implications of these Classical foundations because only by so doing can we attain the full self-awareness necessary to think beyond them and consider the alternatives we now need.
Postclassical Interventions aims to reorient the meaning of antiquity across and beyond the humanities. Building on the success of Classical Presences, this complementary series features shorter-length monographs designed to provoke debate about the current and future potential of Classical Reception through fresh, bold, and critical thinking.
Postclassical Interventions aims to reorient the meaning of antiquity across and beyond the humanities. Building on the success of Classical Presences, this complementary series features shorter-length monographs designed to provoke debate about the current and future potential of Classical Reception through fresh, bold, and critical thinking.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
17 illustrations including 7 in colour
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
358 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-285609-8 (9780192856098)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Ashley Clements
Humans, among Other Classical Animals
E-Book
12/2021
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€54.49
Available for download

Ashley Clements
Humans, among Other Classical Animals
E-Book
12/2021
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€54.49
Available for download
Person
Ashley Clements studied Ancient History and Social Anthropology at University College London and Classics at Cambridge. He is Assistant Professor in Greek Literature and Philosophy at the Classics Department at Trinity College Dublin. His latest research explores how Classical conceptions have always been implicated in European attempts to stake out what is essential to the human and our place in relation to others, and the modern legacy of such receptions. It argues Classics belongs not only to the study of the past but also to vital conversations about humanity of our present; there can be no truly self-reflexive anthropology without it.
Author
Assistant Professor in Greek Literature and PhilosophyAssistant Professor in Greek Literature and Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin
Content
Preface
Prologue
1: Horsing around the Americas
2: Analogous Apes
3: Breathless Beasts and Stuffed Savages
4: From Organic Societies to Unnatural Lives
Epilogue
Prologue
1: Horsing around the Americas
2: Analogous Apes
3: Breathless Beasts and Stuffed Savages
4: From Organic Societies to Unnatural Lives
Epilogue