Modernity's Classics

This book presents critical studies of modern reconfigurations of conceptions of the past, of the 'classical', and of national heritage. Its scope is global (China, India, Egypt, Iran, Judaism, the Greco-Roman world) and inter-disciplinary (textual philology, history of art and architectur...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Humphreys, Sarah C. (Editor), Wagner, Rudolf G. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:Transcultural Research  Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context,
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505 0 # |a Part I: Anchoring Modernity -- The Making of New Delhi. Classical Aesthetics, Oriental Tradition and Architectural Practice: a Transcultural View -- Classics in the Garden: Suppers in an Earthly Paradise -- A Classic Paving the Way to Modernity: The Ritual of Zhou in the Chinese Reform Debate since the Taiping Civil War -- Modernity s Islamicist: Sayyid Qutb s Theocentric Reconstruction of Sovereignty -- Part II: Repositioning Texts -- Classical Scholarship and Arab Modernity -- The Septuagint as a Jewish Classic -- Phenomenon and Reference: Revisiting Parmenides, Empedocles, and the Problem of Rationalization -- Towards an Anthropology of Reading -- Part III: Reconstructing Pastness -- The Ruins of the Others: History and Modernity in Iran -- Making New Classics: the Archaeology of Luo Zhenyu and Victor Segalen -- Homer, Skepticism, and the History of Philology -- Naked Presence and Disciplinary Wording -- Middling Ages and Living Relics as Objects to Think with: Two Figures of the Historical Imagination. 
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