The Use and Abuse of History From the Myths of the Greeks to Levi-Strauss, the Past Alive and the Present Illumined

Finley, M. I.

ISBN 10: 0670742155 / ISBN 13: 9780670742158

Edité par Chatto & Windus, 1975

Dust jacket is lightly edgeworn, spine sunned, small area of wear on rear, upper and lower spine chipped, unprice clipped; boards are clean, corners sharp; binding is tight; pages are unmarked aside from faint stamp on front endpaper, upper edges green. ; 6 x 1 x 8.6 inches; 253 pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 59579

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Light toning to board edges. Content is clean with some spotting. Good DJ with little edge wear and toning. Some small stains to front. DJ price clipped.

Présentation de l'éditeur: Few writers have taught us more about the ancient world than M. I finley. This provocative and wide-ranging collection of his essays contains illuminating discussions of some major issues: the nature of the Spartan state, the development of Greek law, mythological thinking in the Greek historians, utopian ideas old and new. Yet Finley's immense and detailed knowledge of ancient societies is matched by his equally challenging insights into far larger topics of historical technique (can archaeology and anthropology really teach us much about ancient history?), the dangers of easy generalizations (was there ever really a Greek nation?) and the ways in which we all use the past to deal with our present problems (why have political activists from Isocrates to Edmund Burke and F. D. Roosevelt all preached a return to some kind of 'ancestral constitution?) The final chapter considers the boldest question of all: what the classical tradition still has to offer and why it is still worth studying history and the ancient world.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Use and Abuse of History From the Myths ...
Éditeur : Chatto & Windus
Date d'édition : 1975
Reliure : Hardback
Etat : Very Good+
Etat de la jaquette : Very Good-