Search results for "Antiikki"
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Introduction
2022
In the introduction to the volume, the editors explain the overarching aim of the volume and contextualize the main themes of its chapters. Even if the notions of biopolitics and biopower have played a crucial role in philosophy, the humanities, and the social sciences over the last decades, they have been used in various and at times diverging senses, which has also produced different narratives about the history of biopolitics. The main aim of the volume is to clarify whether and to what extent the concept of biopolitics is applicable to antiquity. To answer such questions, the chapters collected in the volume address three main topics, namely the possible presence of biopolitical discour…
Electronic poetry : understanding poetry in the digital environment
2011
The (Meta)politics of Thinking
2021
In this chapter, Jussi Backman approaches Hannah Arendt’s readings of ancient philosophy by setting out from her perspective on the intellectual, political, and moral crisis characterizing Western societies in the twentieth century, a crisis to which the rise of totalitarianism bears witness. To Arendt, the political catastrophes haunting the twentieth century have roots in a tradition of political philosophy reaching back to the Greek beginnings of philosophy. Two principal features of Arendt’s exchange with the ancients are highlighted. The first is her account, in The Human Condition (1958), of the profound transformation of the Greek perceptions of political life initiated by Plato, the…
Was There a Taboo on Killing Wolves in Rome?
2014
The treatment given to wolves differed from the treatment meted out to other large predators. The Romans generally seem to have refrained from intentionally harming wolves. For instance, they were not hunted for pleasure (but only in order to protect herds that were out at pasture), and not displayed in the venationes, either. The special status of the wolf was not based on national ideology, but rather was connected to the religious importance of the wolf to the Romans. peerReviewed
Antiikki ja luonto : roomalainen luontokäsitys Lucretiuksen, Horatiuksen ja M. T. Varron mukaan
2015
Demokritoksen ja Epikuroksen luonnonfilosofian ero
2005
Maiseman esteettinen kokeminen
2003
Susi Rooman valtiollisena symbolina
2001
Susi oli antiikin Roomalle erottuva valtiollinen symboli. Tässä työssä esittelen, kuinka roomalaiset ja muut kansat käyttivät sutta Rooman vertauskuvana. Pyrin myös selvittämään, miksi juuri sudesta tuli roomalaisten symboli, sekä miten susisymboliikkaa tietoisesti vaalittiin. Aineistonani on ollut sekä antiikin kirjallisuus että esineellinen jäämistö. Susi on kuvannut Roomaa sekä kirjallisuudessa että esineistössä. Symbolin käyttö on ollut usein tarkoitushakuista. Keisariaikana se muodosti propagandistisen viitteen myyttiseen alkuhistoriaan, Romulus-taruun. Yksinään, ilma Romulusta ja Remusta, kuvattuna susi on ollut valtion sotilaallisen voiman vertauskuva. Rooman susiyhteys perustuu kans…
Book production and collection
2020
The impact of the modalities of book production on the transmission of texts is still often ignored by editors of texts with little interest in book history, including palaeography, codicology, and library history. The subsequent media revolutions (passage from the rotulus to the codex form, introduction of the Carolingian minuscule, invention of the art of printing, and so on) have, however, deeply influenced what was transmitted and in what form. This chapter will outline the development of book production and collection from Antiquity to the modern period. peerReviewed