Main entry:

Settis, Salvatore.

Title & Author:

The future of the 'classical' / by Salvatore Settis ; translated by Allan Cameron.

Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2006.

Description:

vi, 136 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
"Published with the financial assistance of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-128) and index.
1. The 'classical' in the 'global' universe -- 2. Ancient history as universal history -- 3. 'Classicism' and the 'classical' : retracing our steps -- 4. The 'classical' as the dividing line between post-modern and modern -- 5. The 'classical' amongst the 'historical' styles and the victory of the Doric -- 6. The 'classical' is not 'authentic' -- 7. Greek 'classical' versus Roman 'classical' -- 8. The 'classical', liberty and revolution -- 9. The 'classical' as a repertoire -- 10. The rebirth of antiquity -- 11. The 'classical' before 'classical antiquity' -- 12. The 'classicism' of the 'classical' period -- 13. Eternity amongst the ruins -- 14. Identity and otherness -- 15. Cyclical histories.
Translated from the Italian.

Summary:

"In this new book, Salvatore Settis traces the ways in which we have related to our 'classical' past, starting with post-modern American skyscrapers and working his way back through our cultural history to the attitudes of the Greeks and Romans themselves. Settis argues that this obsession with cultural decay, ruins and a 'classical' past is specifically European and the product of a collective cultural trauma following the collapse of the Roman Empire."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

9780745635996 (pbk.)
(pbk.)
9780745635997
0745635997 (pbk.)
0745635989 (hbk.)
9780745635989 (hbk.)

Subject:

Classical philology Study and teaching.
Civilization, Classical Study and teaching.
Philologie ancienne Étude et enseignement.
Civilisation ancienne Étude et enseignement.
Het klassieke.
Klassieke oudheid.
Receptie.
Civilization, Classical.
Civilization, Modern.
Antiken studier och undervisning.
Klassiska studier.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 248869
Call No.: BIB 178432
Status: Available