{"product_id":"revolution-modern-uprisings-in-ancient-time-9780226843056","title":"Revolution: Modern Uprisings in Ancient Time","description":"\u003cb\u003eA consideration of how modern revolutions have employed tropes of classical antiquity.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Despite its Latin etymology, \"revolution\" in its modern understanding arguably did not exist in antiquity, and revolution as we know it today is considered by many theorists to be a term born in modernity. While they certainly had times of momentous political upheaval, the Greeks and Romans tended to understand such events as part of a narrative of political continuity rather than novelty or rupture. Nevertheless, modern revolutions have repeatedly appropriated tropes of classical discourse, such as freedom, tyranny, tragedy, and fraternity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With this book, Miriam Leonard offers a conceptual history of revolution, unraveling modernity's yearning for the new and questioning why ancient concepts continue to play such an important role in political uprisings. Leonard looks at examples of appeals to antiquity during the French and Haitian Revolutions, in anticolonial struggles, and feminist and queer movements and considers works of theorists such as Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt, and Sigmund Freud that foreground an engagement with antiquity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiriam Leonard\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of Greek literature and its reception at University College London. She is the author of\u003ci\u003e Athens in Paris\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHow to Read Ancient Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSocrates and the Jews\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTragic Modernities\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the editor of\u003ci\u003e Derrida and Antiquity \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of \u003ci\u003eTragedy and the Idea of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e (with Joshua Billings) and\u003ci\u003e Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought\u003c\/i\u003e (with Vanda Zajko). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51830491676946,"sku":"9780226843056","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1d5c2474-98b8-409d-b2bb-eef080f69dd2.jpg?v=1767004595","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/revolution-modern-uprisings-in-ancient-time-9780226843056","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}