{"product_id":"what-is-a-jewish-classicist-simon-goldhill-9781350322578","title":"What Is a Jewish Classicist?: Essays on the Personal Voice and Disciplinary Politics","description":"In recent years, there has been no issue that has convulsed academia and its role in society more stridently than the personal politics of its institutions: who has access to education? How does \u003ci\u003ewho\u003c\/i\u003e you are change \u003ci\u003ewhat\u003c\/i\u003e you study and \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e you engage with it? How does scholarship reflect the politics of society - how \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c\/i\u003eit? These new essays from one of the best-known scholars of ancient Greece offer a refreshing and provocative contribution to these discussions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat is a Jewish Classicist\u003c\/i\u003e? analyses how the personal voice of a scholar plays a role in scholarship, how religion and cultural identity are acted out within an academic discipline, and how translation, the heart of any engagement with the literature of antiquity, is a transformational practice. Topical, engaging, revelatory, this book opens a sharp and personal perspective on how and why the study of antiquity has become such a battlefield in contemporary culture. \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first essay looks at how academics can and should talk about themselves, and how such \u003ci\u003epositionality\u003c\/i\u003e affects a scholar's work - can anyone can tell his or her own story with enough self-consciousness, sophistication and care? The second essay, which gives the book its title, takes a more socio-anthropological approach to the discipline, and asks how its patterns of inclusion and exclusion, its strategies of identification and recognition, have contributed to the shape of the discipline of classics. This initial enquiry opens into a fascinating history of change - how Jews were excluded from the discipline for many years but gradually after the Second World war became more easily assimilated into it. This in turn raises difficult questions for the current focus on race and colour as the defining aspects of personal identification, and about how academia reflects or contributes to the broader politics of society. The third essay takes a different historical approach and looks at the infrastructure or technology of the discipline through one of its integral and time-honoured practices, namely, translation. It discusses how translation, far from being a mere technique, is a transformational activity that helps make each classicist what they are. Indeed, each generation needs its own translations as each era redefines its relation to antiquity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon Goldhill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350322571\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350322578\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d","brand":"Simon Goldhill","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44071414563071,"sku":"9781350322578","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c0cd23ba-7544-476e-be95-9ae13b83cdf1.jpg?v=1685435959","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-is-a-jewish-classicist-simon-goldhill-9781350322578","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}