Alienation The Experience of the Eastern Mediterranean 1st edition by Antigone Samellas ISBN‎ 3039117890 ‎ 978-3039117895

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ISBN 10:‎ 3039117890
ISBN 13: ‎ 978-3039117895
Author: Antigone Samellas

This book is a comprehensive study of the experience of alienation in its many and inter-related manifestations as attested in the late-antique East. It situates Christianity’s enduring legacy in its early historical context and explores the way estrangement from all worldly attributes was elevated to the status of a cardinal religious virtue. The author analyzes the reasons for the new faith’s concern for the marginalized and shows the contemporary relevance of social utopia as an antidote to alienation. Christianity’s contradictions are also examined as, in opposing the existing legal order, the followers of the monotheistic religion inadvertently supported the violence of the imperial authority and its laws. Further, the study focuses on the existentialist and psychological dimensions of time-honoured metaphors, such as «Life is a theatre» and «Dead to the world», and investigates mental illness in late antiquity. Finally, the early origins of the modern concept of the self are traced back to the ideological transformations that marked the slow transition from antiquity to the middle ages.

Alienation The Experience of the Eastern Mediterranean 1st Table of contents:

1. Life is a Theatre 

A. The Theatricality of Everyday Life 

I. The Emperor 

i. The acting of tyrants 

ii. Good and bad models of the philosopher-king 

iii. The eclipse of the emperor-actor 

II. The Nobility 

III. The Self

B. From Distantiation as Affirmation to Distantiation as Negation 

I. Distantiation as Affirmation 

II. Distantiation as Negation 

2. ‘Dead to the World’: Asceticism and its Pleasures

I. Dead to the City 

II. Dead to the Family 

III. Live Unnoticed 

IV. True Life: The Pleasures of Virtue

V. Between Life and Death 

3. From Stigmatization to Deculpabilization: Attitudes towards the Mentally Ill in Late Antiquity an

A. What is Mental Illness? The Case of the Epileptic Stageirios 

i. ‘The wounded healer’ and his patient 

ii. Demon or depression? Mental illness as a family, social and religious crisis 

iii. Sin as mental illness 

B. The Solutions of Despair: The Rationality of the Irrational

4. Sun’s Justice: Social Utopia as an antidote to Alienation 

I. The Utopia of Compassion 

II. The notion of Public Good 

III. Christian Distributive Justice and the Problem of the Just Wage

5. Imperialism and Christianity

A. Imperialism and its Discontents 

B. Christian Attitudes towards Hypoteleia

C. The Political Implications of Christian Historical Hermeneutics 

I. Jews and Christians as Marginal Political Groups 

II. Christian revisionism of Jewish History 

III. Responses to Defeat: Jewish Ingredients of Christian Triumphalism 

IV. After the Defeat: The Persistence of the Spirit of the Fourth Philosophy 

D. The Use and Abuse of Hellenism 

I. Hellenism as an Opposition Ideology

II. Graeco-Roman and Christian Universalism

E. Imperialism and Orthodoxy 

6. Martyrs, Criminals and Convicts: Christians show Solidarity towards the Outlaws without, ultimate

A. The Name ‘Christian’: Its Criminal and Emancipatory Aspects in their Historical Context

I. The Symbolism of Power as Idolatry 

II. What Crime in a Name? 

i. Freedom of Conscience: the Socratic legacy

ii. The name ‘Christian’ bestows Freedom: Freedom as Equality

III. Torture and Truth: The Internalization of Martyrdom

B. Earthly and Divine Justice 

I. Earthly Justice 

II. Divine Justice as a Support and Correction of Earthly Justice 

III. Law and Anomie 

7. True Life: Reading as Salvation

I. The Odyssey of Interpretation and the Odyssey of Life 

II. The Reader as an Individual 

III. The Reader and the Text

IV. Alienations 

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