Romancing Antiquity

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Romancing Antiquity is written by George E. McCarthy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0847685292 (ISBN 10) and 9780847685295 (ISBN 13).

In this unique and comprehensive book, George McCarthy examines the influence of Greek philosophy, literature, arts, and politics on the development of twentieth-century German social thought. McCarthy demonstrates that the classical spirit vitalized thinkers such as Weber, Heidegger, Freud, Marcuse, Arendt, Gadamer, and Habermas. With the romancing of antiquity, they transformed their understanding of the modern self, political community, and Enlightenment rationality. By viewing contemporary social theory from the framework of the classical world, McCarthy argues, we are capable of thinking beyond the limits of modernity to new possibilities of human reason, science, beauty, and social justice.