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Revolution

Miriam Leonard

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  • 112 sidor
  • 2025
A consideration of how modern revolutions have employed tropes of classical antiquity. Despite its Latin etymology, revolution in its modern understanding arguably did not exist in antiquity, and revolution as we know it today is considered by many theorists to be a term born in modernity. While they certainly had times of momentous political upheaval, the Greeks and Romans tended to understand such events as part of a narrative of political continuity rather than novelty or rupture. Nevertheless, modern revolutions have repeatedly appropriated tropes of classical discourse, such as freedom, tyranny, tragedy, and fraternity. With this book, Miriam Leonard offers a conceptual history of revolution, unraveling modernitys yearning for the new and questioning why ancient concepts continue to play such an important role in political uprisings. Leonard looks at examples of appeals to antiquity during the French and Haitian Revolutions, in anticolonial struggles, and feminist and queer movements and considers works of theorists such as Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt, and Sigmund Freud that foreground an engagement with antiquity.
  • Författare: Miriam Leonard
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780226843032
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 112
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-11-24
  • Förlag: University of Chicago Press