Inventing Ancient Culture
Subtitle: Historicism, Periodization and the Ancient World
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 24, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780415099592
First sentence: Whether it is bodies or boredom (Laqueur 1990, Spacks 1995), there is a tendency these days for those interested in the broader field of Cultural Studies to claim that modern perceptions of self (Taylor 1989), modern affectivities (Aries 1981, Foucault 1978, 1985, 1986), modern societal and institutional structures (Aries 1962 and 1981, Foucault 1967, 1973, 1977) date from the century beginning with the Enlightenment (compare Saul 1992).