By Michele Lowrie,Susanne Lüdemann
ISBN-10: 1138020494
ISBN-13: 9781138020498
ISBN-10: 1138241741
ISBN-13: 9781138241749
This ebook pursues a strand within the historical past of idea – starting from codified statutes to looser social expectancies – that makes use of details, extra in particular examples, to supply norms. a lot highbrow heritage takes historical Greece as some degree of departure. however the perform of exemplarity is traditionally rooted firmly in historic Roman rhetoric, oratory, literature, and legislation – genres that still secured its transmission. Their pragmatic technique leads to a conceptualization of politics, social association, philosophy, and legislation that's derived from the concrete. it's normally intended that, with the shift from pre-modern to trendy methods of considering – as glossy wisdom got here to privilege abstraction over exempla, the overall over the actual – exemplarity misplaced its method. This ebook finds the bounds of this knowing. Tracing the function of exemplarity from Rome via to its impact at the fields of literature, politics, philosophy, psychoanalysis and legislation, it indicates how Roman exemplarity has subsisted, not just as a determine of suggestion, but additionally instead method to manage and to transmit knowledge.
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