The Realness of Things Past: Ancient Greece and Ontological History 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 0190886668
• ISBN-13: 9780190886660
• Author: Greg Anderson

The Realness of Things Past proposes a new paradigm of historical practice. It questions the way we conventionally historicize the experiences of non-modern peoples, western and non-western, and makes the case for an alternative. It shows how our standard analytical devices impose modern, dualist metaphysical conditions upon all non-modern realities, thereby authorizing us to align those realities with our own modern ontological commitments, fundamentally altering their contents in the process. The net result is a practice that homogenizes the past’s many different ways of being human. To produce histories that are more ethically defensible, more philosophically robust, and more historically meaningful, we need to take an ontological turn in our practice. The book works to formulate a non-dualist historicism that will allow readers to analyse each past reality on its own ontological terms, as a more or less autonomous world unto itself.

Table contents:

Part I: Losing Athens in Translation
1. Our Athenian Yesterdays
2. A World of Contradictions
3. Missing Objects
4. Historicism and Its Consequences
5. Beyond Cultural History
Part II: The Many Real Worlds of the Past
6. Other Ways of Being Human
7. The Anomalous Foundations of Modern Being
8. Ethnographies of the Present
9. Ontological History
Part III: Life in a Cosmic Ecology
10. The Metaphysics of Polis Community
11. Governed by Gods
12. The Cells of the Social Body
13. Living as One Liked
14. The Cares of a Corporate Self
15. The Circulation of Life’s Resources
16. Being in a Different World

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