Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity

Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise the present and try to shape the future. This book explores aetiology as a too...

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Eará dahkkit: Wessels, A.B (Doaimmaheaddji), Klooster, J.J.H (Doaimmaheaddji)
Materiálatiipa: Elektrovnnalaš Girjji oassi
Giella:eaŋgalasgiella
Almmustuhtton: Brill 2022
Ráidu:Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation
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Čoahkkáigeassu:Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise the present and try to shape the future. This book explores aetiology as a tool for thinking, and draws attention to the paradoxical structure of origin stories. Aetiologies reduce complex ambivalence and plurality to plainly causal and temporal relations, but at the same time, by casting an anchor into the past, they open doors to progress and innovation.
Olgguldas hápmi:1 electronic resource (228 p.)
ISBN:9789004500433
9789004500143
Beassan:Open Access