The Realness of Things Past: Ancient Greece and Ontological History

by Greg Anderson

The Realness of Things Past proposes a new paradigm of historical practice. It questions the way we conventionally historicize the experiences of non-modern peoples, western and non-western, and makes the case for an alternative. It shows how our standard analytical devices impose modern, dualist metaphysical conditions upon all non-modern realities, thereby authorizing us to align those realities with our own modern ontological commitments, fundamentally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197576702
• ISBN13: 9780197576700
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"