Reseña de: Neville Morley, Antiquity and Modernity

BRAICOVICH, RODRIGO SEBASTIÁN

Scholia. Studies in Classical Antiquity

Otago University Print

Año: 2009 p. 143 - 147

1018-9017

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { text-indent: 1cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; page-break-before: auto } P.cjk { font-size: 10pt } --> Morley sets out the aim of his study in the first chapter, ?Untimely Knowledge? (pp. 1-20), which serves as an introduction to the core of the problem to be addressed throughout his study: ?This book aims to consider the way that, in the ?long nineteenth century?, ideas of modernity were developed and explored through the consideration of the use of the classical past and the definition of differences, contrasts, and continuities? (p. 18). Although the authors who appear more prominently throughout the book are Nietzsche and Marx, it covers a significant number of thinkers from diverse disciplines (economy, history, philosophy, aesthetics, et cetera) who would not, at first sight, have much in common, such as Schiller and David Ricardo, or John Stuart Mill and Wagner. Morley?s proposal is to chart the multiple alternatives that such authors (among others) offered by way of answering to a central question: is the study and understanding of the past necessary or at least relevant to the understanding of the present?