Description
Book SynopsisPresents a study of modernity that examines classical influences Incorporates political, economic, social, and psychological theories Highlights writings from a wide range of thinkers, including Adam Smith, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Weber, and Freud.
Trade Review"Morley's wide-ranging and ambitious study subjects the mythology of 'modernity' to an incisive critique. This provocative and original book asserts the persistent significance of concepts of antiquity in underpinning the most quintessentially and self-consciously 'modern' disciplines of economics and sociology." Catharine Edwards, Birkbeck College "Morley's study opens a fascinating window onto the history of the shifting ideas of antiquity and the correlative sciences of modernity - onto the ever-changing and still ongoing dilemma of their mutual dependency. Probing the uncertain 'logic of modernity,' Morley obliges us to ask whether, if we have never been modern, was antiquity ever ancient? This is a much-needed reassessment of the classical European traditions of economic, sociological, and political theory." James I. Porter, University of Michigan
Table of ContentsPreface.
Note on References.
1. Untimely Knowledge.
2. The Great Transformation: ancient and modern economics.
3. Before Alienation: the classical critique of modern society.
4. An Aesthetic Education: the failings of modern culture.
5. History as Nightmare: conceptions of progress and decline.
6. Allusion and Appropriation: the rhetorical uses of antiquity.
Bibliography of Sources.
Bibliography.
Index of Persons.
Index of Subjects
