Modernity's Classics

1. Introduction
Sarah C. Humphreys, Rudolf G. Wagner

2. The Making of New Delhi
Monica Juneja

3. Classics in the Garden: Suppers in an Earthly Paradise
Ronald Inden

4. A Classic Paving the Way to Modernity: The Ritual of Zhou in the Chinese Reform Debate Since the Taiping Civil War
Rudolf G. Wagner

5. Modernity’s Islamicist: Sayyid Qutb’s Theocentric Reconstruction of Sovereignty
Mustapha Kamal Pasha

6. Classical Scholarship and Arab Modernity
Peter E. Pormann

7. The Septuagint as a Jewish Classic
Nicholas Lange

8. Phenomenon and Reference: Revisiting Parmenides, Empedocles, and the Problem of Rationalization
André Laks

9. Towards an Anthropology of Reading
Sarah C. Humphreys

10. The Ruins of the Others: History and Modernity in Iran
Setrag Manoukian

11. Making New Classics: The Archaeology of Luo Zhenyu and Victor Segalen
Denis Thouard, Tao Wang

12. Homer, Skepticism, and the History of Philology
James I. Porter

13. Naked Presence and Disciplinary Wording
Michael Fotiadis

14. Middling Ages and Living Relics as Objects to Think with: Two Figures of the Historical Imagination
Gadi Algazi

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, Classical Studies, Archaeology