We and They

Download or read book We and They written by Jonathan Cahana-Blum and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles collected in this volume share a very similar goal: to decolonize our understanding of antiquity, thus allowing modernity to converse with antiquity without constraining the latter to be either the direct precedent or the thoroughly other of the former. It is certainly true that the past is a foreign country. However, history has repeatedly demonstrated that colonialism never contributed to mutual understanding and constructive exchange of ideas, and that such is the dialogue we should strive forthwith our contemporaries as well as with our ancestors.