Future Thinking In Roman Culture

Author : Maggie L. Popkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000515559
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Future Thinking in Roman Culture written by Maggie L. Popkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future Thinking in Roman Culture is the first volume dedicated to the exploration of prospective memory and future thinking in the Roman world, integrating cutting edge research in cognitive sciences and theory with approaches to historiography, epigraphy, and material culture. This volume opens a new avenue of investigation for Roman memory studies in presenting multiple case studies of memory and commemoration as future-thinking phenomena. It breaks new ground by bringing classical studies into direct dialogue with recent research on cognitive processes of future thinking. The thematically linked but methodologically diverse contributions, all by leading scholars who have published significant work in memory studies of antiquity, both cultural and cognitive, make the volume well suited for classical studies scholars and students seeking to explore cognitive science and philosophy of mind in ancient contexts, with special appeal to those sharing the growing interest in investigating Roman conceptions of futurity and time. The chapters all deliberately coalesce around the central theme of prospection and future thinking and their impact on our understanding of Roman ritual and religion, politics, and individual motivation and intention. This volume will be an invaluable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of classics, art history, archaeology, history, and religious studies, as well as scholars and students of memory studies, historical and cultural cognitive studies, psychology, and philosophy.

Author : Blanka Misic
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009355546
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World written by Blanka Misic and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the senses shaped the way the Romans perceived, understood, and remembered ritual experiences.

Author : Juliette Harrisson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441176330
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire written by Juliette Harrisson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into dream reports in the history and literature of early Roman culture.

Author : Gabriel R. Ricci
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412825733
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humanities and Civic Life written by Gabriel R. Ricci and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in Religion and Public Life, a series on religion and public affairs, provides a wide-ranging forum for differing views on religious and ethical considerations. The contributions address the decline of social capital-those patterns of behavior which are conducive to self-governance and the spirit of self-reliance-and its relation to the demise of the civic-humanist tradition in American education. The unifying theme, is that classical studies do not merely result in individual mastery over a particular technique or body of knowledge, but also link the individual to the polity and even to the whole of the cosmic order. At the same time, American republicanism, in its exaltation of the common man from the Jeffersonian agrarian soldier to the apotheosis of Lincoln tempers the classical ideal into something less exalted, if more democratic. The effects on the contemporary state of the liberal arts curriculum are demonstrated in articles critical of the market-model university. Two essays explore the historical and philosophical significance of the discipline of rhetoric, that has suffered under the hegemony of rationalistic philosophy. A concluding contribution, invokes Giambattista Vico as an eloquent defender of the humanities. Humanities and Civic Life includes: "Rome, Florence, and Philadelphia: Using the History of the Humanities to Renew Our Civic Life" by Robert E. Proctor; "The Dark Fields of the Republic: The Persistence of Republican Thought in American History" by David Brown; "Unleashing the Humanities" by Robert Weisbuch; "Liberal Arts: Listening to Faculty" by Dennis O'Brien; "Historical Consciousness in Antiquity" by Paul Gottfried; "Taking the Measure of Relativism and the Civic Virtue of Rhetoric" by Gabriel R. Ricci; "The River: A Vichian Dialogue on Humanistic Education" by Randall E. Auxier. Gabriel Ricci is associate professor in the department of philosophy at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. Paul Gottfried is professor of political science at Elizabethtown College. He is the author of The Search for Historical Meaning and The Conservative Millenarians.

Author : Hannah Arendt
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101662654
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Past and Future written by Hannah Arendt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, “a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day” (Harper’s Magazine) Hannah Arendt’s insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy. In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory. Through a series of eight exercises, she shows how we can redistill the vital essence of these concepts and use them to regain a frame of reference for the future. To participate in these exercises is to associate, in action, with one of the most original and fruitful minds of the twentieth century.

Author : Roman Krznaric
Publisher : The Experiment
ISBN 13 : 1615198334
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Ancestor written by Roman Krznaric and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback: A call to save ourselves and our planet that gets to the root of the current crisis—society’s extreme short-sightedness

Author : Diana Y. Ng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110847389X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reuse and Renovation in Roman Material Culture written by Diana Y. Ng and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reuse of architectural and sculptural materials (spoliation) was common centuries earlier than previously realized, during the Roman empire.

Author : Jonathan J. Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108494811
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Rome written by Jonathan J. Price and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores future visions under a universalizing empire that many thought would never die.

Author : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691195986
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Science of Roman History written by Walter Scheidel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With state-of-the-art contributions by scholars who are leaders in their respective fields, this edition describes how the integration of natural and human archives is changing the entire historical enterprise.

Author : Harriet I. Flower
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199240241
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancestor Masks and Aristocratic Power in Roman Culture written by Harriet I. Flower and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first comprehensive study of Roman ancestor masks in English, Harriet Flower explains the reasons behind the use of wax masks in the commemoration of politically prominent family members by the elite society of Rome. Flower traces the functional evolution of ancestor masks, from theirfirst attested appearance in the third century BC to their last mention in the sixth century AD, through the examination of literary sources in both prose and verse, legal texts, epigraphy, archaeology, numismatics, and art. It is by putting these masks, which were worn by actors at the funerals ofthe deceased, into their legal, social, and political context that Flower is able to elucidate their central position in the media of the time and their special meaning as symbols of power and prestige.