Prometheus Revisited
Subtitle: The Quest for Global Justice in the Twenty-First Century (Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture)
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781558493896
Subjects: Globalization; History of ideas, intellectual history; International relations; Political control & freedoms; Political ideologies; 20th century; 21st century; Nationalism; History Of Sociological Thought; Sociological Theory; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Social justice; Politics/International Relations; International Relations - General; Modern - 21st Century; Philosophy; Sociology - General; Civilization
First sentence: IN APRIL 1819 a young expatriate Englishman in Rome put the finishing touches to a long poetic drama, eloquent on the questions of freedom and resistance to tyranny but full of abstruse allegorical figures derived from the classical world.