I Have A Question - Episode Five - (week 11) - The Far Right's Attraction to Ancient Philosophy
- May 2, 2022
- 2 min read
Articles to Read Before this episode of “I Have a Question”.
Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville. By Denise Eileen McCoskey
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Why the alt-right loves ancient Rome
And Greece, too.
By Sean Illing
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Hate Groups Love Ancient Greece and Rome. Scholars Are Pushing Back.
White supremacists, misogynists, and anti-Semites see ancient Greece and Rome as touchstones. Classicists are irked.
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The classics and racial hatred: how the far right hijacked the ancient world
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He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?
Dan-el Padilla Peralta thinks classicists should knock ancient Greece and Rome off their pedestal — even if that means destroying their discipline.
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The (Mis-) Use of Greco-Roman History by Modern White Supremacy Groups: The Implications of the Classics in the Hands of White Supremacists Emily Anne King
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Aristotle, Father of Scientific Racism
By Matthew A. Sears
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When Your Favorite Philosopher is a Bigot
Peter Adamson considers possible ways forward.
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Classics and the Alt-Right: Historicizing Visual Rhetorics of White Supremacy
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What the rise of “it’s OK to be white” says about the alt-right
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White Supremacists, Charlottesville, and the Philosophy Classroom By Justin Weinberg
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Philosophy’s systemic racism
It’s not just that Hegel and Rousseau were racists. Racism was baked into the very structure of their dialectical philosophy
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Not just Sparta: White Supremacist Admiration of Athens
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White Nationalist celebrates “European” Philosophers
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Plato, White Supremacy, and Totalitarianism
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Greco-Roman Antiquity, the Basis of White Identity
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Charles W Mills: Philosopher who used his work to challenge white supremacy
Mills was an incisive critic of western political theory who believed that modern philosophy had nothing to say about the subjugation and brutalisation of people of colour
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After Racist Incidents Mire a Conference, Classicists Point to Bigger Problems
By Emma Pettit
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Why We Need to Start Seeing the Classical World in Color by Sarah E. Bond
The equation of white marble with beauty is not an inherent truth of the universe; it’s a dangerous construct that continues to influence white supremacist ideas today.
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How to Be a Good Classicist Under a Bad Emperor
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Guests:
Wed-
Curtis Dozier
Denise Eileen McCoskey
Sean Iling
Donna Zuckerberg
Thur -
Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Mary Beard
Sarah Bond
Jen Pinkowski
Fri -
Katherine Harloe
Matthew Sears
Peter Adamson
Heidi Morse
Sat -
Christian Lundberg
Justin Weinberg
Sun -
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