Revolution
Modern Uprisings in Ancient Time
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2025
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-84303-2 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-84303-2 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Miriam Leonard is professor of Greek literature and its reception at University College London. She is the author of Athens in Paris, How to Read Ancient Philosophy, Socrates and the Jews, and Tragic Modernities. She is the editor of Derrida and Antiquity and coeditor of Tragedy and the Idea of Modernity (with Joshua Billings) and Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought (with Vanda Zajko).
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Time
Genre
Fraternity
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.10.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Critical Antiquities |
| Zusatzinfo | 7 halftones |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 286 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-84303-3 / 0226843033 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-84303-2 / 9780226843032 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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