Athena S Leoussi
Biographic Data
| ID | 113330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Athena S Leoussi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Athena S |
| FAMILY NAME | Leoussi |
| SIGNATURE | LEOUSSI A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6323-4814 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction: John Stone's Trajectory From Race Relations to Nationalism
Race and the printed language: "Roman and gothic letterforms in the making of the "Aryan race
The Updated Scope of Genealogy
Our journal, Genealogy (https://www [...]
Symposium dedicated to Michael Banton (1926–2018) and his contribution to Asen and the study of race, ethnicity, and nationalism: Max Weber and Karl Popper in Michael Banton's analysis of the concept …
Michael Banton was a militant scientist. He was a committed advocate of the scientific method. He fought, in the numerous intellectual skirmishes in which he engaged, throughout his academic life, for the serious and systematic application of the scientific method to the study of social relations, and especially the study of ‘race’ relations, for which he is best known. Michael argued for the analytical, objective, empirical and critical examinat…
David Martin: My Teacher, or, A Way of Seeing
David Martin's sociology of religion embodied an expansive vision of religion, one that encompassed the entirety of human and social experience: its political, national, economic, aesthetic, poetical and spiritual-religious orientations, and the complexities of their institutional arrangements, entanglements and compromises with one another. David's sociology was not formulaic; it was a constant struggle - a struggle for understanding the motives…
Anthony D. Smith and the role of art, architecture and music in the growth of modern nations: A comparative study of national parliaments and classical music in Britain and Denmark
This essay takes its inspiration from Anthony D. Smith’s work and offers a brief com-parative analysis of national parliaments and composers in Britain andDenmark. It examines how ideas of the nation became ‘real’ in those key pub-lic institutions of the two countries, their national parliaments and through theworks of the composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Carl Nielsen. Our aim is also to advance cross-national study of national art, architec…
Nationalism
Nationalism is a complex social phenomenon with the nation as its object. In its modern, ideological manifestation of an otherwise human, natural attachment to the life‐giving forces of parenthood and land, observable throughout human history, nationalism has its roots in both the Enlightenment and the Romantic reaction to it. It found its earliest expressions in the American and French revolutions, and in the multiplicity of movements for nation…
Introduction: Nationalism and the owl of Minerva
Armstrong, John A. (1922–2010)
This entry examines the “myth and symbolism” theory of nationalism developed by John A. Armstrong. Neither primordialist nor modernist but a perennialist, Armstrong's theory of nations and nationalism reaches back into the “night of time” and forward into the present day. Armstrong's path‐breaking and monumental work, Nations before Nationalism , published in 1982, expressed his longue durée approach to the emergence of ethnic groups as incipient…
Art and Nationalism
This entry outlines the development in European art of a new genre, that of national art. The new artistic orientation was taken from the doctrine of nationalism, a philosophy that idealized the nation. National art engaged both with the civic, Enlightenment conceptions of nation and nationalism and with the Romantic, ethnocultural conceptions of nation and nationalism. This entry shows, first, that the visual arts have been potent vehicles of th…
Belonging: Solidarity and Division in Modern Societies
Athena S. LeoussiDepartment of Modern Languages and European Studies, University of Reading, Reading, [email protected](c) 2014, Athena S. Leoussi
Dreams and Nightmares of Nationhood: The Obi Igwara Special Memorial Event to mark 50 Years of Decolonization in Africa, 1960–2010
Max Weber in the thought of Edward Shils (1910-1995) and Ernest Gellner (1925-1995): The paradox of two Weberian approaches to the understanding of nations and nationalism
This article traces the paradoxical impact of Weber's oeuvre on two major scholars of nationalism, Ernest Gellner and Edward Shils. Both these scholars died in 1995, leaving behind a rich corpus of writings on the nation and nationalism, much of which was inspired by Max Weber. The paradox is that although neither scholar accepted Weber's sceptical attitude to the concept of 'nation', they both used his other major concepts, such as 'rationality'…
N&N Themed Section: National Identity in Old and New Europe
The Call of the Homeland: Diaspora Nationalisms, Past and Present
CONTENTS PART I: CHARTING THE HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE AND THEORETICAL FRONTIERS OF DIASPORA NATIONALISMS Diasporas and Homelands in History: The Case of the Classic Diasporas Anthony D. Smith Beyond the Homeland: From Exilic to Diasporic Transnationalism Khachig Toeloelyan Contemporary Diasporas, Nationalism, and Transnationalism Politics Chantal Bordes-Benayoun PART II: CLASSIC DIASPORAS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Diaspora's Liberal and the Call …
The idea of nationalism: A study in its origins and background
The idea of nationalism: a study in its origins and background, by Hans Kohn (with a new introduction by Craig Calhoun), New Brunswick, NJ, Transaction, 2005, lvi + 735 pp., $39.95 (paperback), ISB
Nationalism
Nationalism is a complex social phenomenon with the nation as its object. Rooted in the Latin natio , denoting community of birth, the term nationalismus seems to have been coined by Johann Gottfried Herder as a part of his Romantic celebration of cultural diversity. Nevertheless, modern nationalism has its ideological roots in both the Enlightenment and the Romantic reaction to it. Definitions of “nationalism” as, indeed, of the “nation” vary in…
Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism: History, Culture and Ethnicity in the Formation of Nations
The Antiquity of Nations - Anthony D. Smith
The ethno‐cultural roots of national art
By examining the period from the late eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, this article shows the development in European art of a new genre, that of national art. The new artistic orientation was taken from the doctrine of nationalism, a philosophy which idealised the nation, the historically‐evolved, ethno‐cultural community. The essay shows, first, that the visual arts have been potent vehicles of the national idea; second, that works of art…
Obituary: Obi Patience Igwara 1955‐2002
Theories of Nationalism and the National Revival
Hellenism and Jewish nationalism: Ambivalence and Its Ancient Roots
This essay sketches the ambivalent relationship of Hebraism and Hellenism from ancient times to the foundation of modern Israel. It analyses classical Greek influence on the Jewish Enlightenment (the Haskalah) and modern Jewish nationalism, particularly as reflected in Hebrew literature. Greece's successful struggle for independence from Ottoman Turkey in the 1820s showed the early Zionists that an ancient nation could be resurrected. Also, the a…
Myths of ancestry
This article examines the national significance of fifth‐century BC Greek sculpture and especially the so‐called Elgin Marbles. It examines the significance of these archaeological remains not for the Greek nation but for the British, and specifically the English, nation during the nineteenth century. The national significance of fifth‐century BC Greek art lies in its incorporation into nineteenth‐century debates concerning the identity of the En…
Pheidias and 'l'esprit moderne: The Study of Human Anatomy in Nineteenth-Century English and French Art Education
This article considers the transformation of artists' education during the nineteenth century, from neo-classical idealism to classical naturalism. Through a study of manuals of anatomical education used in the Royal Academy and the École des Beaux-Arts, it shows that this change was the result of the massive importation into Western Europe of specimens of fifth-century B.C. Greek art, and, most notably, of specimens of the work of Pheidias and P…
Belonging: Solidarity and Division in Modern Societies
Athena S. LeoussiDepartment of Modern Languages and European Studies, University of Reading, Reading, [email protected](c) 2014, Athena S. Leoussi
The ethno‐cultural roots of national art
By examining the period from the late eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, this article shows the development in European art of a new genre, that of national art. The new artistic orientation was taken from the doctrine of nationalism, a philosophy which idealised the nation, the historically‐evolved, ethno‐cultural community. The essay shows, first, that the visual arts have been potent vehicles of the national idea; second, that works of art…
Hellenism and Jewish nationalism: Ambivalence and Its Ancient Roots
This essay sketches the ambivalent relationship of Hebraism and Hellenism from ancient times to the foundation of modern Israel. It analyses classical Greek influence on the Jewish Enlightenment (the Haskalah) and modern Jewish nationalism, particularly as reflected in Hebrew literature. Greece's successful struggle for independence from Ottoman Turkey in the 1820s showed the early Zionists that an ancient nation could be resurrected. Also, the a…
Max Weber in the thought of Edward Shils (1910-1995) and Ernest Gellner (1925-1995): The paradox of two Weberian approaches to the understanding of nations and nationalism
This article traces the paradoxical impact of Weber's oeuvre on two major scholars of nationalism, Ernest Gellner and Edward Shils. Both these scholars died in 1995, leaving behind a rich corpus of writings on the nation and nationalism, much of which was inspired by Max Weber. The paradox is that although neither scholar accepted Weber's sceptical attitude to the concept of 'nation', they both used his other major concepts, such as 'rationality'…
Myths of ancestry
This article examines the national significance of fifth‐century BC Greek sculpture and especially the so‐called Elgin Marbles. It examines the significance of these archaeological remains not for the Greek nation but for the British, and specifically the English, nation during the nineteenth century. The national significance of fifth‐century BC Greek art lies in its incorporation into nineteenth‐century debates concerning the identity of the En…
Nationalism and racial Hellenism in nineteenth‐century England and France
This article assesses the part played by physical anthropology and classical archaeology in the transformation of nineteenth‐century English and French nationalisms into racial Hellenisms. At that time the anthropological ideas of race and racial determinism introduced the body into conceptions of national identity and community. Physical anthropologists placed the Greek body at the centre of their studies, claiming, first, that the Greek physiqu…
Symposium dedicated to Michael Banton (1926–2018) and his contribution to Asen and the study of race, ethnicity, and nationalism: Max Weber and Karl Popper in Michael Banton's analysis of the concept …
Michael Banton was a militant scientist. He was a committed advocate of the scientific method. He fought, in the numerous intellectual skirmishes in which he engaged, throughout his academic life, for the serious and systematic application of the scientific method to the study of social relations, and especially the study of ‘race’ relations, for which he is best known. Michael argued for the analytical, objective, empirical and critical examinat…
Anthony D. Smith and the role of art, architecture and music in the growth of modern nations: A comparative study of national parliaments and classical music in Britain and Denmark
This essay takes its inspiration from Anthony D. Smith’s work and offers a brief com-parative analysis of national parliaments and composers in Britain andDenmark. It examines how ideas of the nation became ‘real’ in those key pub-lic institutions of the two countries, their national parliaments and through theworks of the composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Carl Nielsen. Our aim is also to advance cross-national study of national art, architec…
Introduction: Nationalism and the owl of Minerva
Dreams and Nightmares of Nationhood: The Obi Igwara Special Memorial Event to mark 50 Years of Decolonization in Africa, 1960–2010
Social misconstruction: Neglect of biology in contemporary british sociology
Nationalism and racial Hellenism in nineteenth‐century England and France
This article assesses the part played by physical anthropology and classical archaeology in the transformation of nineteenth‐century English and French nationalisms into racial Hellenisms. At that time the anthropological ideas of race and racial determinism introduced the body into conceptions of national identity and community. Physical anthropologists placed the Greek body at the centre of their studies, claiming, first, that the Greek physiqu…
Nationalism and Classicism
Hellenism and Ethnographic Art
The naturalist aesthetics which resulted from the attachment of art to science was not without its ambiguities. Both the key terms, ‘nature’ and ‘aesthetics’, were variously interpreted, and the scientific community which was expected to pronounce on these matters was itself divided. Indeed, anthropological scientists could not agree on what nature, and particularly human nature, was. Did all the different forms of mankind which they had discover…
Images of Greeks as Images of God
This chapter sets out to describe the statistical and thematic patterns of English and French works of art illustrating ancient Greek mythology — a category which includes images of characters from Homer and from ancient Greek tragedies, of the Greek gods and demi-gods, their priests, rituals and festivals and of ancient Greek mythical heroes. Graph 7.1 shows the overall pattern of works on Greek mythology in the RA and the Salon. These keywords …
Pheidias and 'l'esprit moderne: The Study of Human Anatomy in Nineteenth-Century English and French Art Education
This article considers the transformation of artists' education during the nineteenth century, from neo-classical idealism to classical naturalism. Through a study of manuals of anatomical education used in the Royal Academy and the École des Beaux-Arts, it shows that this change was the result of the massive importation into Western Europe of specimens of fifth-century B.C. Greek art, and, most notably, of specimens of the work of Pheidias and P…
Classical humanism and modern societies
Myths of ancestry
This article examines the national significance of fifth‐century BC Greek sculpture and especially the so‐called Elgin Marbles. It examines the significance of these archaeological remains not for the Greek nation but for the British, and specifically the English, nation during the nineteenth century. The national significance of fifth‐century BC Greek art lies in its incorporation into nineteenth‐century debates concerning the identity of the En…
Theories of Nationalism and the National Revival
Hellenism and Jewish nationalism: Ambivalence and Its Ancient Roots
This essay sketches the ambivalent relationship of Hebraism and Hellenism from ancient times to the foundation of modern Israel. It analyses classical Greek influence on the Jewish Enlightenment (the Haskalah) and modern Jewish nationalism, particularly as reflected in Hebrew literature. Greece's successful struggle for independence from Ottoman Turkey in the 1820s showed the early Zionists that an ancient nation could be resurrected. Also, the a…
Obituary: Obi Patience Igwara 1955‐2002
The ethno‐cultural roots of national art
By examining the period from the late eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, this article shows the development in European art of a new genre, that of national art. The new artistic orientation was taken from the doctrine of nationalism, a philosophy which idealised the nation, the historically‐evolved, ethno‐cultural community. The essay shows, first, that the visual arts have been potent vehicles of the national idea; second, that works of art…
Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism: History, Culture and Ethnicity in the Formation of Nations
The Antiquity of Nations - Anthony D. Smith
Nationalism
Nationalism is a complex social phenomenon with the nation as its object. Rooted in the Latin natio , denoting community of birth, the term nationalismus seems to have been coined by Johann Gottfried Herder as a part of his Romantic celebration of cultural diversity. Nevertheless, modern nationalism has its ideological roots in both the Enlightenment and the Romantic reaction to it. Definitions of “nationalism” as, indeed, of the “nation” vary in…
The idea of nationalism: A study in its origins and background
The idea of nationalism: a study in its origins and background, by Hans Kohn (with a new introduction by Craig Calhoun), New Brunswick, NJ, Transaction, 2005, lvi + 735 pp., $39.95 (paperback), ISB
The Call of the Homeland: Diaspora Nationalisms, Past and Present
CONTENTS PART I: CHARTING THE HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE AND THEORETICAL FRONTIERS OF DIASPORA NATIONALISMS Diasporas and Homelands in History: The Case of the Classic Diasporas Anthony D. Smith Beyond the Homeland: From Exilic to Diasporic Transnationalism Khachig Toeloelyan Contemporary Diasporas, Nationalism, and Transnationalism Politics Chantal Bordes-Benayoun PART II: CLASSIC DIASPORAS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Diaspora's Liberal and the Call …
N&N Themed Section: National Identity in Old and New Europe
Dreams and Nightmares of Nationhood: The Obi Igwara Special Memorial Event to mark 50 Years of Decolonization in Africa, 1960–2010
Max Weber in the thought of Edward Shils (1910-1995) and Ernest Gellner (1925-1995): The paradox of two Weberian approaches to the understanding of nations and nationalism
This article traces the paradoxical impact of Weber's oeuvre on two major scholars of nationalism, Ernest Gellner and Edward Shils. Both these scholars died in 1995, leaving behind a rich corpus of writings on the nation and nationalism, much of which was inspired by Max Weber. The paradox is that although neither scholar accepted Weber's sceptical attitude to the concept of 'nation', they both used his other major concepts, such as 'rationality'…
Armstrong, John A. (1922–2010)
This entry examines the “myth and symbolism” theory of nationalism developed by John A. Armstrong. Neither primordialist nor modernist but a perennialist, Armstrong's theory of nations and nationalism reaches back into the “night of time” and forward into the present day. Armstrong's path‐breaking and monumental work, Nations before Nationalism , published in 1982, expressed his longue durée approach to the emergence of ethnic groups as incipient…
Art and Nationalism
This entry outlines the development in European art of a new genre, that of national art. The new artistic orientation was taken from the doctrine of nationalism, a philosophy that idealized the nation. National art engaged both with the civic, Enlightenment conceptions of nation and nationalism and with the Romantic, ethnocultural conceptions of nation and nationalism. This entry shows, first, that the visual arts have been potent vehicles of th…
Belonging: Solidarity and Division in Modern Societies
Athena S. LeoussiDepartment of Modern Languages and European Studies, University of Reading, Reading, [email protected](c) 2014, Athena S. Leoussi
Nationalism
Nationalism is a complex social phenomenon with the nation as its object. In its modern, ideological manifestation of an otherwise human, natural attachment to the life‐giving forces of parenthood and land, observable throughout human history, nationalism has its roots in both the Enlightenment and the Romantic reaction to it. It found its earliest expressions in the American and French revolutions, and in the multiplicity of movements for nation…
Introduction: Nationalism and the owl of Minerva
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