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Culture and Society in Ancient Greece

On the Edge of Everyday Life
Juan A. Roche Cárcel

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In Ancient Greece, society and culture are embedded in Nature, but center on a human logos. This meaning is marked by a tragic, dialectical thinking that oscillates between chaos and cosmos—as if culture were born of the abyss, yet in a ceaseless struggle against it.

This book explores the relationships between society, culture, Nature, and individuals in Ancient Greece. As shown throughout the work, society and culture of Ancient Greece…
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This book explores the relationships between society, culture, Nature, and individuals in Ancient Greece. As shown throughout the work, society and culture of Ancient Greece are embedded in Nature and indebted to it, but they place at their heart a human logos full of meaning. This meaning, however, is inextricably intertwined with meaninglessness, for it is marked by uncertainty, doubt, contradiction, paradox, ambivalence, and, in short, by a tragic and dialectical way of thinking that oscillates between chaos and cosmos. As if society and culture were located on the edge of everyday life, between the real world—dark chaos—and the ideal—perfect order—as if the former were intolerable and the latter unattainable; ultimately, as if both were children of the abyss, yet in a ceaseless struggle against it.

Juan A. Roche Cárcel is Professor of Sociology of Culture and Arts at the University of Alicante (Spain). His last publications include, as author, A SILENT SCREAM. An approach to King Kong and the evolution of contemporary American imagination, 2022; Creativity and Time. A Sociological Exploration, 2021; and La Sociedad evanescente, 2009; and, as editor, Modernidades Regresivas (y el desafío de lo Universal), 2022; Bases Biológicas, Psicológicas y Socio-Culturales de la Creatividad, 2022; and The fragility of Democracy, 2016. He is currently Director of EMOCS (International Research of Sociology of Emotions, Bodies and Sensibilities), Director of the book collection The Sociological Owl of the Arts, and Vice President of REDISS (International Network of Researchers on Emotions, Bodies and Sensitivities).

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-6814-3
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-6814-9
  • Date of Publication: 2026-03-04

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-0364-6815-1
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-6815-6
  • Date of Publication: 2026-03-04
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Subject Codes:

  • BIC: HBLA1, HBTB, JHB
  • BISAC: SOC026040, SOC002010, SOC026000, PHI002000, PHI034000, PHI013000
  • THEMA: NHC, NHTB, JHB
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