The Classics Are Patiently Waiting (János György Szilágyi in Conversation with Ferenc László)
The Classics Are Patiently Waiting (János György Szilágyi in Conversation with Ferenc László)

Summary/Abstract: Ferenc László: In your essays, you repeatedly refer to Nietzsche who said that each age must enter into a new relationship with antiquity and measure itself against that. Can the study of antiquity help us gain our bearings and find solutions to the problems of the present? János György Szilágyi: Yes, it can. The study of antiquity, the examples antiquity offers, can at least assist us to see things clearly and to come to proper judgements. Let us take the topic that I find the most exciting and the most important at the moment, which is the problem of fictions regarding early history and what is closely related to them, the issue of modern nationalisms.[...]

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