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oapen-20.500.12657-577142022-08-03T03:08:28Z Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity Wessels, A.B. Klooster, J.J.H. aetiological; Greek; Roman; Antiquity; etiologisch; Grieks; Romeins bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise the present and try to shape the future. This book explores aetiology as a tool for thinking, and draws attention to the paradoxical structure of origin stories. Aetiologies reduce complex ambivalence and plurality to plainly causal and temporal relations, but at the same time, by casting an anchor into the past, they open doors to progress and innovation. 2022-08-02T11:28:38Z 2022-08-02T11:28:38Z 2022 book 9789004500143 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57714 eng Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International [9789004500433 - Inventing Origins_ Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity] Inventing Origins_ Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity.pdf Brill 10.1163/9789004500433 10.1163/9789004500433 af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 da087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025 9789004500143 Dutch Research Council (NWO) 2 228 024.003.012 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research open access
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Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise the present and try to shape the future. This book explores aetiology as a tool for thinking, and draws attention to the paradoxical structure of origin stories. Aetiologies reduce complex ambivalence and plurality to plainly causal and temporal relations, but at the same time, by casting an anchor into the past, they open doors to progress and innovation.
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