{"product_id":"year-1-9780262548625","title":"YEAR 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReclaiming the first century as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences: liberating the past to speak to us in another way.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConventional readings of antiquity cast Athens against Jerusalem, with Athens standing in for “reason” and Jerusalem for “faith.” And yet, Susan Buck-Morss reminds us, recent scholarship has overturned this separation. Naming the first century as a zero point—“year one”—that divides time into before and after is equally arbirtrary, nothing more than a convenience that is empirically meaningless. In \u003ci\u003eYEAR 1\u003c\/i\u003e, Buck-Morss liberates the first century so it can speak to us in another way, reclaiming it as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuck-Morss aims to topple various conceptual givens that have shaped modernity as an episteme and led us into some unhelpful postmodern impasses. She approaches the first century through the writ","brand":"MIT Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400708301143,"sku":"9780262548625","price":22.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780262548625.jpg?v=1730471354","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/year-1-9780262548625","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}