Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity

by: Lovejoy, A.O. Boas, G.

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Primitivism and related ideas in antiquity

Authors:Arthur O. Lovejoy, George Boas, William Foxwell Albright

Summary:A documentary and analytical record, this work presents the classical background of primitivism and anti-primitivism in modern literature, historiography, and social and moral philosophy. The theories of Plato and Aristotle, and the concepts of cynicism and stoicism are discussed.

xi, 482 pages ; 24 cm

Contents:
Prolegomena to the History of Primitivism
Chronological Primitivism in Greek and Roman Mythology and Historiography
Genesis of the Conception of 'Nature' as Norm
Cynic Primitivism
Epicureanism and the Simple Life
Plato and Primitivism
Aristotle and Primitivistic Ideas
Anti-Primitivism in Greek Literature: Eighth to First Centuries B.C
Lucretius: Primitivism and the Idea of Progress
Cicero and Primitivistic Ideas
Stoic Primitivism
The Noble Savage in Antiquity
Anti-Primitivism and the Idea of Progress in Later Classical Literature
The Superiority of the Animals
Supplementary Essays. Primitivism in Ancient Western Asia / W.F. Albright. Primitivism in Indian Literature / P.E. Dumont
Appendix. Some Meanings of 'Nature'

Extensive quotation in Greek and Latin

Subjects:
Altertum
Civilization, Western Classical influences
Einfachheit
Fortschritt
Fortschrittsgedanke
Geschichte 800 v. Chr.-500
Kritik
Kulturkritik
Philosophie ancienne
Philosophy, Ancient
Primitivism
Primitivisme
Primitivismo Filosofia antica

Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity

by: Lovejoy, A.O. Boas, G.

• ISBN-13: 9780801856112 / 978-0-8018-5611-2
• ISBN-03: 0801856116 / 0-8018-5611-6
• The John Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1997

Price: 37,56 EURO

1 copy in stock