Over the past day—and indeed for months and weeks—I have been watching and involved with arguments dismissing “postmodern approaches” to classics #ClassicsAndTheoryRant (1/15)
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Way to go to lose an audience, past, present and future.
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@nastyinmuhtaxi I’m genuinely interested. Where does the anxiety about methodological approaches in the Clasdics as a discipline come from? What is the “correct” way to theorise gender and ethnicity? And, importantly, who should be the arbiters of such a privileged heuristic? -
Appreciate your response as I’m genuinely confused by the animus towards certain approaches to the Classics which doesn’t appear to the same degree in cognate disciplines.
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By what standards would you reject a piece of work using such theory, without recourse to hand waving about “virtue signalling” (ironically a polemical term invented in 2015 by someone less than familiar with the Classics)?
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I would be utterly gobsmacked if Aristophanes had not referenced the behaviour if not the terminology.
End of conversation
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