Afterwords
Hellenism, modernism, and the myth of decadence
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Author
Publication
1996 - State University of New York Press, Albany, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
65,000 words, Guess
Page Count
260 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL788435M
- ISBN-100791429334
- OCLC Control Number32820879
- OCLC Control Number42417531
- OCLC Control Numberafterwordshellen0000rupr
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number95020798
- LibraryThing8757153
- Goodreads4098080
Classifications
- DDC909.08/01
- LCCB945.R853 A3 1996
Description
This book about nostalgia raises the question of why it has become such a dominant and influential posture in contemporary philosophical and theological writing. The author notes the presence of the word "after" in a great many contemporary academic titles, and notes a spiritual sort of alienation that many feel in the "modern age." Out of this scholarly discontent emerges one of two related attempts: the attempt to return to a premodern manner of thinking and being (nostalgia); and the playful flight into some vaguely defined "postmodernity" (utopia). In either case, the common perception is that modernity is a problem, a problem to be avoided or escaped. . Bringing philosophical and theological texts into conversation with one another, the book discovers a startling similarity in the accounts of modernness offered in these disparate idioms. Both are telling a story - a story which, the author argues, is as seductive as it is misguided.
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