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Despite the rousing stories of male heroism in battles, the Trojan War transcended the activities of its human participants. For Homer, it was the gods who conducted and accounted for what happened. In the first part of this book, the authors find in Homer's Iliad material for exploring the everyday life of the Greek gods: what their bodies were made of and how they were nourished, the organization of their society, and the sort of life they led both in Olympus and in the human world. The gods are divided in their human nature: at once a fantasized model of infinite joys and an edifying example of engagement in the world, they have loves, festivities, and quarrels.In the second part, the authors show how citizens carried on everyday relations with the gods and those who would become the Olympians, inviting them to reside with humans organized in cities. At the heart of rituals and of social life, the gods were omnipresent: in sacrifices, at meals, in political assemblies, in war, in sexuality. In brief, the authors show how the gods were indispensable to the everyday social organization of Greek cities.To set on stage a number of gods implicated in the world of human beings, the authors give precedence to the feminine over the masculine, choosing to show how such great powers as Hera and Athena wielded their sovereignty over cities, reigning over not only the activities of women but also the moulding of future citizens. Equally important, the authors turn to Dionysus and follow the evolution of one of his forms, that of the phallus paraded in processions. Under this god, so attentive to all things feminine, the authors explore the typically civic ways of thinking about the relations between natural fecundity and the sexuality of daily life.

Despite the rousing stories of male heroism in battles, the Trojan War transcended the activities of its human participants. For Homer, it was the gods who conducted and accounted for what happened. In the first part of this book, the authors find in Homer's Iliad material for exploring the everyday life of the Greek gods: what their bodies were made of and how they were nourished, the organization of their society, and the sort of life they led both in Olympus and in the human world. The gods are divided in their human nature: at once a fantasized model of infinite joys and an edifying example of engagement in the world, they have loves, festivities, and quarrels.In the second part, the authors show how citizens carried on everyday relations with the gods and those who would become the Olympians, inviting them to reside with humans organized in cities. At the heart of rituals and of social life, the gods were omnipresent: in sacrifices, at meals, in political assemblies, in war, in sexuality. In brief, the authors show how the gods were indispensable to the everyday social organization of Greek cities.To set on stage a number of gods implicated in the world of human beings, the authors give precedence to the feminine over the masculine, choosing to show how such great powers as Hera and Athena wielded their sovereignty over cities, reigning over not only the activities of women but also the moulding of future citizens. Equally important, the authors turn to Dionysus and follow the evolution of one of his forms, that of the phallus paraded in processions. Under this god, so attentive to all things feminine, the authors explore the typically civic ways of thinking about the relations between natural fecundity and the sexuality of daily life.

This year marks the five-hundredth anniversary of Thomas More's widely influential book Utopia, and this volume brings together a number of scholars to consider the book, its long afterlife, and specifically its effects on political activists over the centuries. In addition to thorough studies of Utopia itself, and appraisals of More's relationship with Erasmus, the book presents detailed studies of the effect of Utopia on early modern England and the Low Countries, as well as philosophical reflections on ideology and the utopian mind, and much more.

This year marks the five-hundredth anniversary of Thomas More's widely influential book Utopia, and this volume brings together a number of scholars to consider the book, its long afterlife, and specifically its effects on political activists over the centuries. In addition to thorough studies of Utopia itself, and appraisals of More's relationship with Erasmus, the book presents detailed studies of the effect of Utopia on early modern England and the Low Countries, as well as philosophical reflections on ideology and the utopian mind, and much more.

This year marks the five-hundredth anniversary of Thomas More's widely influential book Utopia, and this volume brings together a number of scholars to consider the book, its long afterlife, and specifically its effects on political activists over the centuries. In addition to thorough studies of Utopia itself, and appraisals of More's relationship with Erasmus, the book presents detailed studies of the effect of Utopia on early modern England and the Low Countries, as well as philosophical reflections on ideology and the utopian mind, and much more.

PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThe essays in this volume of the award-winning A Cultural History of Ideas explore essential domains of reflection and practice in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. Ranging from knowledge to nature, the human self to the linguistic and figurative arts, and ethics to politics to religion, the contributors produce an entirely new history of ideas. The distinctive intellectual life of antiquity is not simply shown in the area of theory, nor is it merely seen in context. Instead, this volume reveals how ancient societies generated knowledge and representations in their culture and embodied practice.The 6-volume set A Cultural History of Ideas is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available in print for individuals or for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com. Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.

This book positions Ovid’s Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poem is about new bodies. Stones, springs, plants and animals materialize out of human origins to create a world of hybrid objects, which retain varying degrees of human subjectivity while taking on new physical form. In bending the boundaries of known categories of being, these hybrid entities reveal both the porousness of human and other agencies as well as the dangers released by their fusion. Metamorphosis unsettles the category of the human within the complex ecologies that make up the world as we know it.Drawing on a range of modern environmental theorists and approaches, the contributors to this volume trace how the Metamorphoses models the relationship between humans and other life forms in ways that resonate with the preoccupations of contemporary eco-criticism. They make the case for seeing the worldview depicted in Ovid’s poem as an exemplar of the ‘premodern’ ecological mindset that contemporary environmental thought seeks to approximate. They also highlight critical moments in the history of the poem’s ecological reception, including reflections by a contemporary poet, as well as studies of Medieval and Renaissance responses to Ovid.

This book positions Ovid''s Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poem is about new bodies. Stones, springs, plants and animals materialize out of human origins to create a world of hybrid objects, which retain varying degrees of human subjectivity while taking on new physical form. In bending the boundaries of known categories of being, these hybrid entities reveal both the porousness of human and other agencies as well as the dangers released by their fusion. Metamorphosis unsettles the category of the human within the complex ecologies that make up the world as we know it.Drawing on a range of modern environmental theorists and approaches, the contributors to this volume trace how the Metamorphoses models the relationship between humans and other life forms in ways that resonate with the preoccupations of contemporary eco-criticism. They make the case for seeing the worldview depicted in Ovid''s poem as an exemplar of the ''premodern'' ecological mindset that contemporary environmental thought seeks to approximate. They also highlight critical moments in the history of the poem''s ecological reception, including reflections by a contemporary poet, as well as studies of Medieval and Renaissance responses to Ovid.

This book positions Ovid''s Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poem is about new bodies. Stones, springs, plants and animals materialize out of human origins to create a world of hybrid objects, which retain varying degrees of human subjectivity while taking on new physical form. In bending the boundaries of known categories of being, these hybrid entities reveal both the porousness of human and other agencies as well as the dangers released by their fusion. Metamorphosis unsettles the category of the human within the complex ecologies that make up the world as we know it.Drawing on a range of modern environmental theorists and approaches, the contributors to this volume trace how the Metamorphoses models the relationship between humans and other life forms in ways that resonate with the preoccupations of contemporary eco-criticism. They make the case for seeing the worldview depicted in Ovid''s poem as an exemplar of the ''premodern'' ecological mindset that contemporary environmental thought seeks to approximate. They also highlight critical moments in the history of the poem''s ecological reception, including reflections by a contemporary poet, as well as studies of Medieval and Renaissance responses to Ovid.

This book positions Ovid’s Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poem is about new bodies. Stones, springs, plants and animals materialize out of human origins to create a world of hybrid objects, which retain varying degrees of human subjectivity while taking on new physical form. In bending the boundaries of known categories of being, these hybrid entities reveal both the porousness of human and other agencies as well as the dangers released by their fusion. Metamorphosis unsettles the category of the human within the complex ecologies that make up the world as we know it.Drawing on a range of modern environmental theorists and approaches, the contributors to this volume trace how the Metamorphoses models the relationship between humans and other life forms in ways that resonate with the preoccupations of contemporary eco-criticism. They make the case for seeing the worldview depicted in Ovid’s poem as an exemplar of the ‘premodern’ ecological mindset that contemporary environmental thought seeks to approximate. They also highlight critical moments in the history of the poem’s ecological reception, including reflections by a contemporary poet, as well as studies of Medieval and Renaissance responses to Ovid.

PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThe essays in this volume of the award-winning A Cultural History of Ideas explore essential domains of reflection and practice in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. Ranging from knowledge to nature, the human self to the linguistic and figurative arts, and ethics to politics to religion, the contributors produce an entirely new history of ideas. The distinctive intellectual life of antiquity is not simply shown in the area of theory, nor is it merely seen in context. Instead, this volume reveals how ancient societies generated knowledge and representations in their culture and embodied practice.The 6-volume set A Cultural History of Ideas is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available in print for individuals or for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com. Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.

PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThe essays in this volume of the award-winning A Cultural History of Ideas explore essential domains of reflection and practice in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. Ranging from knowledge to nature, the human self to the linguistic and figurative arts, and ethics to politics to religion, the contributors produce an entirely new history of ideas. The distinctive intellectual life of antiquity is not simply shown in the area of theory, nor is it merely seen in context. Instead, this volume reveals how ancient societies generated knowledge and representations in their culture and embodied practice.The 6-volume set A Cultural History of Ideas is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available in print for individuals or for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com. Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Amorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago claims. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy nor a cruel and mean passion, nor yet a symptom of feeble self-esteem. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is not callous, nasty, delusional and ridiculous. It is just painful.Yet for centuries moralists have poured scorn and contempt on a feeling that, in their view, we should fight in every possible way. It is allegedly a disease to be treated, a moral vice to be eradicated, an ugly, pre-modern, illiberal, proprietary emotion to be overcome. Above all, no one should ever admit to being jealous.So should we silence this embarrassing sentiment? Or should we, like the heroines of Greek tragedy, see it as a fundamental human demand for reciprocity in love? By examining its cultural history from the ancient Greeks to La Rochefoucauld, Hobbes, Kant, Stendhal, Freud, Beauvoir, Sartre and Lacan, this book demonstrates how jealousy, far from being a 'green-eyed' fiend, reveals the intense and apprehensive nature of all erotic love, which is the desire to be desired.We should never be ashamed to love.

Amorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago claims. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy nor a cruel and mean passion, nor yet a symptom of feeble self-esteem. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is not callous, nasty, delusional and ridiculous. It is just painful.Yet for centuries moralists have poured scorn and contempt on a feeling that, in their view, we should fight in every possible way. It is allegedly a disease to be treated, a moral vice to be eradicated, an ugly, pre-modern, illiberal, proprietary emotion to be overcome. Above all, no one should ever admit to being jealous.So should we silence this embarrassing sentiment? Or should we, like the heroines of Greek tragedy, see it as a fundamental human demand for reciprocity in love? By examining its cultural history from the ancient Greeks to La Rochefoucauld, Hobbes, Kant, Stendhal, Freud, Beauvoir, Sartre and Lacan, this book demonstrates how jealousy, far from being a 'green-eyed' fiend, reveals the intense and apprehensive nature of all erotic love, which is the desire to be desired.We should never be ashamed to love.

Amorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare''s venomous Iago claims. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy nor a cruel and mean passion, nor yet a symptom of feeble self-esteem. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is not callous, nasty, delusional and ridiculous. It is just painful.

Yet for centuries moralists have poured scorn and contempt on a feeling that, in their view, we should fight in every possible way. It is allegedly a disease to be treated, a moral vice to be eradicated, an ugly, pre-modern, illiberal, proprietary emotion to be overcome. Above all, no one should ever admit to being jealous.

So should we silence this embarrassing sentiment? Or should we, like the heroines of Greek tragedy, see it as a fundamental human demand for reciprocity in love? By examining its cultural history from the ancient Greeks to La Rochefoucauld, Hobbes, Kant, Stendhal, Freud, Beauvoir, Sartre and Lacan, this book demonstrates how jealousy, far from being a ''green-eyed'' fiend, reveals the intense and apprehensive nature of all erotic love, which is the desire to be desired.

We should never be ashamed to love.

Les femmes ont-elles une âme ? Les philosophes en ont longtemps douté, refusant aux femmes l’accès à la rationalité. Mais en même temps, ils n’ont su penser l’âme qu’à l’aide de métaphores féminines : l’âme conçoit, elle est grosse de connaissances, elle accouche dans la douleur et la détresse mais toujours avec l’aide de quelqu’un. Lisant les textes classiques à la manière de Derrida, les déconstruisant en portant le regard sur leurs à-côtés, sur ce qui paraît anecdotique, comme autant de lapsus révélateurs, Giulia Sissa nous conduit à nous interroger sur les attributs exclusivement féminins de l’âme occidentale. Cette lecture suggestive et rigoureuse est un questionnement radical de la différence des sexes qui nous conduit au plus profond de notre culture. Giulia Sissa est professeur de littérature et de civilisation grecques à l’Université Johns Hopkins de Baltimore. Elle a publié Le Plaisir et le mal aux Éditions Odile Jacob.

Giulia Sissa appartient à l''école de Jean-Pierre Vernant qui a complètement renouvelé l''étude de la pensée grecque. Dans ce livre, elle mobilise la philosophie antique et médiévale pour comprendre un problème on ne peut plus contemporain : celui de la consommation de drogue qui engendre une accoutumance parfois mortelle. Réciproquement, elle se sert des témoignages de grands écrivains modernes et contemporains qui ont puisé dans la drogue une bonne part de leur inspiration - De Quincey, Freud, Burroughs - pour réinterpréter toute une tradition philosophique. Ce que les philosophes ont pensé - le plaisir est négatif ; le désir est insatiable -, l''expérience de la drogue le confirme jusque dans son vocabulaire : " se trouer ", " se défoncer ". Envoûtant comme une mélodie, ce livre apparaît ainsi comme une histoire de la jouissance. Giulia Sissa est chargée de recherche au Laboratoire d''anthropologie sociale du Collège de France et professeur à l''université John Hopkins, aux États-Unis.

« Oui, les Anciens étaient sensuels. Autant que nous, autrement que nous. D’abord à Athènes et ensuite à Rome éclôt une véritable culture érotique qui réunit l’art d’aimer, la recherche du plaisir, la civilité du désir, l’amour homosexuel, l’ironie phallique et l’importance exemplaire du féminin. Tantôt idéalisé dans une distance infranchissable, tantôt pillé hors contexte, le monde classique reste mal connu. Il nous faut refaire le voyage à Cythère avec un bon guide amoureux. Le voici. » G. S. Sur le désir et le plaisir, la différence des sexes et la fluidité des genres, la discipline sentimentale et le savoir-faire voluptueux, les Anciens ont encore tant à nous apprendre ! Où mieux que dans l’Ithaque de Pénélope, la salle de banquet platonicienne et la Rome d’Ovide pourrait-on être initié de façon aussi magistrale à toutes ces stratégies d’enchantement qui transforment le sexe en sensualité ? Pour un nouvel art d’aimer, plus libre, plus inventif, plus complice, plus raffiné, qui, comme en Grèce et à Rome, fait la part belle aux sens et aux corps désirants, sans figer de manière rigide les rôles, les genres et les identités. Giulia Sissa est professeur de théorie politique et de civilisations de l’Antiquité à UCLA, en Californie. Chercheuse au CNRS, elle a notamment publié Le Plaisir et le Mal. Philosophie de la drogue et L’Âme est un corps de femme.

Mientras que la mitología y la historia griegas destacan la figura, la presencia y el papel de la mujer y hacen de ella un ser poderoso, lleno de posibilidades y de proyectos, la democracia griega –el modelo ideal de organización social para el mundo occidental– la considera un animal doméstico y, enfrentándola al hombre como animal político, relega su participación a un segundo plano en el proceso de construcción y defensa del Estado.Dos milenios después, la situación sigue siendo, en esencia, la misma. Y no solo en el mundo occidental. Dirijamos la mirada hacia donde la dirijamos, en el mundo entero la mujer sigue siendo considerada un ser incompetente, incapaz, imposibilitado por naturaleza para ejercer el poder, para gobernar, para tomar en sus manos no solo su propio destino sino, sobre todo, el de la sociedad a la que, aquí y allá, pertenece y a cuya construcción hace una valiosa contribución.Partiendo precisamente del mundo antiguo, haciendo un recorrido por el cristianismo, la Edad Media, la Ilustración y la Edad Moderna, y llegando a la democracia de nuestros días, Giulia Sissa nos entrega El poder de las mujeres. Un desafío para la democracia, un libro excelentemente documentado, brillante, de una contemporaneidad sorprendente, que es, al mismo tiempo, una excelente manera de dar inicio a una nueva colección de la Editorial de la Universidad Veracruzana: Feminismos.

This volume brings together a number of scholars to consider the book Utopia, its long afterlife, and specifically its effects on political activists over the centuries.