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What Is a Palestinian State Worth?

What Is a Palestinian State Worth? doi 10.1215/0961754X-1544995 Common Knowledge 18:2 © 2012 by Duke University Press Page DuBois, Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 236 pp. Common KnoWLEDgE The field of study we call Classics is an ideological construction. It assumes that the Greece and Rome of antiquity belong to the modern West in some singular, privileged way—as our antiquity, their works our classics—and that these civilizations were largely self-invented. In this antiquity, there is no diaspora, no hybrids, no minorities, often no women or slaves. Democratic, philosophical Athens is the antitype of a cosmopolis: hermetic, autochthonous, owing nothing to the civilizations of Africa, India, or the Near East. But the classical lines of demarcation and exclusion have eroded under globalization. We are beginning to understand how antiquity was everywhere mixed and riven by difference. DuBois envisions a new classical studies, less insular, engaged with larger debates in the humanities. She brings a classical scholar’s expert knowledge on Alexander, Epimenides, Oedipus, Spartacus, and St. Paul to bear on questions in the work of Agamben, Badiou, Butler, Negri, and Rancière. She reads Sappho and exposes the impulse of scholarship to efface the traces of the past, transfixed http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

What Is a Palestinian State Worth?

Common Knowledge , Volume 18 (2) – Mar 20, 2012

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doi 10.1215/0961754X-1544995 Common Knowledge 18:2 © 2012 by Duke University Press Page DuBois, Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 236 pp. Common KnoWLEDgE The field of study we call Classics is an ideological construction. It assumes that the Greece and Rome of antiquity belong to the modern West in some singular, privileged way—as our antiquity, their works our classics—and that these civilizations were largely self-invented. In this antiquity, there is no diaspora, no hybrids, no minorities, often no women or slaves. Democratic, philosophical Athens is the antitype of a cosmopolis: hermetic, autochthonous, owing nothing to the civilizations of Africa, India, or the Near East. But the classical lines of demarcation and exclusion have eroded under globalization. We are beginning to understand how antiquity was everywhere mixed and riven by difference. DuBois envisions a new classical studies, less insular, engaged with larger debates in the humanities. She brings a classical scholar’s expert knowledge on Alexander, Epimenides, Oedipus, Spartacus, and St. Paul to bear on questions in the work of Agamben, Badiou, Butler, Negri, and Rancière. She reads Sappho and exposes the impulse of scholarship to efface the traces of the past, transfixed

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Published: Mar 20, 2012

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