Brooke Holmes
Biographic Data
| ID | 121858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brooke Holmes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brooke |
| FAMILY NAME | Holmes |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMES B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9984-1632 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Variations in media framing of movements in China, France, and the U.S: An intersectional approach
Current literature often links contentious protests with media hostility, showing that news outlets typically portray protests involving disruption or violence in a negative light. Contesting this literature, this work introduces an intersectional approach—focusing on geopolitics, protest goals and actions—to theorize divergences in the media framing of protests that entail violence. To illustrate these divergences, we use mixed methods—network a…
Does Violent Protest Receive Negative Coverage?—Media Framing of Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Movement and French Yellow Vest Movement
Regarding media framing of protests, current studies have primarily focused on the negative side of framing tools, that is, marginalization devices that news media employ to belittle and demonize a protest. Yet little scholarship has scrutinized the positive side of framing tools, i.e., affirmation devices that mass media adopt to convey sympathy for and approval of a protest. Through comparing U.S. media coverage of two recent large anti-governm…
Pain, Power, and Human Community: Empathy as a “Physical Problem” in Pseudo-Aristotle and Beyond
Bruno Snell, The Discovery of the Mind (1946; trans. 1953)
This article nominates Bruno Snell’s Discovery of the Mind (1946; trans. 1953) as an Undead Text on the basis of three criteria. The article examines first the persistence of a Snellian story about the Greeks as the ancestors of modern Europe within the discipline of classics, before considering the broader question of how Undead Texts interact with Undead (Grand) Narratives. It then considers Discovery as an Undead Narrative in its symbiotic rel…
On Stoic sympathy: Cosmobiology and the life of nature
This chapter analyses the Stoic concept of cosmic sympathy. The Stoics contribute to the conceptualization of a web of interconnected natures in antiquity by making sympathy visible as a feature of the world, encompassing both humans and non-humans. Holmes argues that the Stoic conceptualization of sympathy offers an experiment in thinking through the contradictions of cosmic organicism or “cosmobiology” insofar as it affirms both the integrity o…
At the end of the line: On kairological history
This essay examines, from a position within Classics, different angles on critiques of historicism and the turn to anachronism in History, Art History, Medieval Studies, and Queer Theory before proposing the idea of ‘kairological history’, on the model of the artist Paul Chan’s ‘kairological art’. On this analysis, ‘kairological history’ engages the critical and creative resources of anachronic thinking alongside tools of historicism (e.g. empiri…
Antiquities Beyond Humanism
Countering an unflagging modernist infatuation with the new, Antiquities beyond Humanism maps out the ground for a richer and more sustained encounter with Greco-Roman antiquity, excavating an ante-humanism that nonetheless does not seek any kind of return to a pre-humanist arcadia. The volume arises from a commitment to actively engage the ancient philosophical tradition as a powerful field through which to tackle some of the most urgent questio…
Hyperinclusivity, Hypercanonicity, and the Future of the Field
The canon has long served as a means of controlling the information that the professional classicist, who is facing a vast field of potentially relevant material, can be expected to possess. But recent developments (e.g. the rise of reception studies, a broadened definition of the ancient Mediterranean, comparative antiquities) have put pressure on this strategy. In this chapter we consider the limitations of two possible responses to such a situ…
Marginality, Canonicity, Passion
In recent years the discipline of classics has been experiencing a profound transformation, which affects not only methodologies and hermeneutic practices (i.e. how classicists read and interpret ancient literature) but also, and more importantly, the objects of study themselves (i.e. what they read and interpret). One of the most important factors has been the establishment of reception studies. The reception of classical literature and culture …
The Generous Text: Animal Intuition, Human Knowledge and Written Transmission in Pliny's Books on Medicine
Tragedy in the Crosshairs of the Present
A number of developments in the study of Greek literature over the past few decades have broken down boundaries of canon and genre, opening up a wide range of texts once deemed degenerate or unavailable to literary analysis, expanding the networks within which literary texts are interpreted, and bringing renewed attention to the reception of ancient texts in later periods up to the present. The rise of reception studies, in particular, raises new…
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
Lucretius on Creation and Evolution: A Commentary on De rerum natura 5.772-1104
Of course, strictly speaking, the Epicureans are not atheists; but their gods 1 inhabit another world and care not a whit for humankind, which is to say that their brand of humanism is aggressively secular.
Proto-Sympathy in the Hippocratic Corpus
The Frontiers of Ancient Science: Essays in Honor of Heinrich von Staden
Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The fields of ancient science and mathematics have in recent years witnessed remarkable growth. The present volume brings together contributions from more than thirty of the most important scholars working in these fields in the United States and Europe in honor…
The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece
Antigone Again: Conspiracy and Curse
Bonnie Honig’s recently published book, Antigone, Interrupted, is a significant new contribution to ongoing debates in philosophy, political theory, and literary studies about the reception of Sophocles’s Antigone. This review analyzes the strengths of Honig’s readings, the theory of “agonistic humanism” that they support, and the book’s deft navigation of the relationship between interpretation and theorizing. It also queries the emphasis on Ant…
The poetics of anthropogony: Men, women, and children in Lucretius, book five
“The Poetics of Anthropogony: Men, Women, and Children in Lucretius, Book Five” analyzes how Lucretius handles a significant problem in Epicurean accounts of the origins of humans and human culture – namely, how a species that, unlike any other, enters the world “in need of every kind of vital support” (indigus omni uitali auxilio) as Lucretius himself famously writes in an argument against a providential ordering of the cosmos, ever managed to s…
Greco-Roman Ethics and the Naturalistic Fantasy
To modern scholars, the naturalistic fallacy looks out of place in Greco-Roman antiquity owing to the robust associations between nature, especially human nature, and moral norms. Yet nature was understood by ancient authors not only as a norm but also as a form of necessity. The Greco-Roman philosophical schools grappled with how to reconcile the idea that human nature is given with the idea that it is a goal to be reached. This essay looks at t…
Causality, Agency, and the Limits of Medicine
The difference between ancient Greek medicine and ancient Greek philosophy has often been seen by scholars in terms of two targets of expertise: the body and the soul. In this paper, I argue that we can better understand the boundaries between medicine and philosophy in antiquity by focusing instead on the difference between causes and motivations (or causes and desires). The reason is this. It is not the case that the writers of the Hippocratic …
The Poetic Logic of Negative Exceptionalism in Lucretius, Book Five
Antigone at Colonus and the End(s) of Tragedy
Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus , it would seem, is an exercise in closure. In the opening scene, Oedipus, worn down by years of wandering blind and hungry, arrives at the borders of Athens. Here is where his legendary sufferings—his murder of his father, his incestuous marriage to his mother, his betrayal by his sons, his exile from Thebes—are fated to end. Following his miraculous death, his body will become a sacred gift to the city that receive…
Introduction: Swerves, Events, and Unexpected Effects
Extract ὕστατος αὖ φυσικῶν καὶ κύντατος, ἐκ Σάμου ἐλθὼνγραμμοδιδασκαλίδης, ἀναγωγότατος ζωόντων.Last of the physikoi and most shameless, he came from Samos,a teacher of letters, the most undisciplined of living creatures.1 So Timon of Phlius describes Epicurus.2 However exaggerated these lines, they contain, like many fragments of ancient biography, elements of central importance for understanding not so much Epicurus himself but, rather, his his…
Dynamic ReadingStudies in the Reception of Epicureanism: Studies in the reception of Epicureanism
"Dynamic Reading examines the reception history of Epicurean philosophy through a series of eleven case studies, which range chronologically from the latter days of the Roman Republic to late twentieth-century France and America. Rather than attempting to separate an original Epicureanism from its later readings and misreadings, this collection studies the philosophy together with its subsequent reception, focusing in particular on the ways in wh…
The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece
The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, moving through classical-era medical treatises, and closing with studies of early ethical philosophy and Euripidean tragedy, this book rewrites the traditional story of the rise of body-soul dualism in ancient Greece. Brooke Holmes demonstrates that as the bod…
Marginality, Canonicity, Passion
In recent years the discipline of classics has been experiencing a profound transformation, which affects not only methodologies and hermeneutic practices (i.e. how classicists read and interpret ancient literature) but also, and more importantly, the objects of study themselves (i.e. what they read and interpret). One of the most important factors has been the establishment of reception studies. The reception of classical literature and culture …
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
Antiquities Beyond Humanism
Countering an unflagging modernist infatuation with the new, Antiquities beyond Humanism maps out the ground for a richer and more sustained encounter with Greco-Roman antiquity, excavating an ante-humanism that nonetheless does not seek any kind of return to a pre-humanist arcadia. The volume arises from a commitment to actively engage the ancient philosophical tradition as a powerful field through which to tackle some of the most urgent questio…
Does Violent Protest Receive Negative Coverage?—Media Framing of Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Movement and French Yellow Vest Movement
Regarding media framing of protests, current studies have primarily focused on the negative side of framing tools, that is, marginalization devices that news media employ to belittle and demonize a protest. Yet little scholarship has scrutinized the positive side of framing tools, i.e., affirmation devices that mass media adopt to convey sympathy for and approval of a protest. Through comparing U.S. media coverage of two recent large anti-governm…
Hyperinclusivity, Hypercanonicity, and the Future of the Field
The canon has long served as a means of controlling the information that the professional classicist, who is facing a vast field of potentially relevant material, can be expected to possess. But recent developments (e.g. the rise of reception studies, a broadened definition of the ancient Mediterranean, comparative antiquities) have put pressure on this strategy. In this chapter we consider the limitations of two possible responses to such a situ…
Antigone at Colonus and the End(s) of Tragedy
Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus , it would seem, is an exercise in closure. In the opening scene, Oedipus, worn down by years of wandering blind and hungry, arrives at the borders of Athens. Here is where his legendary sufferings—his murder of his father, his incestuous marriage to his mother, his betrayal by his sons, his exile from Thebes—are fated to end. Following his miraculous death, his body will become a sacred gift to the city that receive…
At the end of the line: On kairological history
This essay examines, from a position within Classics, different angles on critiques of historicism and the turn to anachronism in History, Art History, Medieval Studies, and Queer Theory before proposing the idea of ‘kairological history’, on the model of the artist Paul Chan’s ‘kairological art’. On this analysis, ‘kairological history’ engages the critical and creative resources of anachronic thinking alongside tools of historicism (e.g. empiri…
Daedala Lingua: Crafted Speech in De Rerum Natura
This article examines the creation of words in De Rerum Natura through a close reading of two extended passages concerning the problem of where words come from and what they do. The first is the account of speech production, work entrusted to the daedala lingua in Book 4. This physiological process is mimicked at the phylogenic level in the discussion on the origins of language in Book 5, where voice is first shaped by a body responding to the im…
Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome, and the Gods
Wealthy, conceited, hypochondriac (or perhaps just an invalid), obsessively religious, the orator Aelius Aristides (117 to about 180) is not the most attractive figure of his age, but because he is one of the best-known -- and he is intimately known, thanks to his Sacred Tales -- his works are a vital source for the cultural and religious and political history of Greece under the Roman Empire. The papers gathered here, the fruit of a conference h…
Medicine
This article attempts to characterize a secular tradition of medicine, and focuses on approaches to the body and theories of causation. It seems that, just like the street philosophers, magicians were more individualistic and charismatic than the writers of systematic treatises, and yet they too sometimes relied on texts. It is important to remain open to possible connections between magic and medicine. For example, in the course of medical histo…
The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece
The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, moving through classical-era medical treatises, and closing with studies of early ethical philosophy and Euripidean tragedy, this book rewrites the traditional story of the rise of body-soul dualism in ancient Greece. Brooke Holmes demonstrates that as the bod…
Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-Century Greece: Between Craft and Cult (review)
Reviewed by: Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-Century Greece: Between Craft and Cult Brooke Holmes Bronwen L. Wickkiser. Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-Century Greece: Between Craft and Cult. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xiii + 178 pp. Ill. $55.00 (978-0-8018-8978-3). For some years, scholars of Greek medicine have been steadily eroding the opposition between rational and irr…
Nancy Worman, Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008
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Introduction: Swerves, Events, and Unexpected Effects
Extract ὕστατος αὖ φυσικῶν καὶ κύντατος, ἐκ Σάμου ἐλθὼνγραμμοδιδασκαλίδης, ἀναγωγότατος ζωόντων.Last of the physikoi and most shameless, he came from Samos,a teacher of letters, the most undisciplined of living creatures.1 So Timon of Phlius describes Epicurus.2 However exaggerated these lines, they contain, like many fragments of ancient biography, elements of central importance for understanding not so much Epicurus himself but, rather, his his…
Dynamic ReadingStudies in the Reception of Epicureanism: Studies in the reception of Epicureanism
"Dynamic Reading examines the reception history of Epicurean philosophy through a series of eleven case studies, which range chronologically from the latter days of the Roman Republic to late twentieth-century France and America. Rather than attempting to separate an original Epicureanism from its later readings and misreadings, this collection studies the philosophy together with its subsequent reception, focusing in particular on the ways in wh…
Causality, Agency, and the Limits of Medicine
The difference between ancient Greek medicine and ancient Greek philosophy has often been seen by scholars in terms of two targets of expertise: the body and the soul. In this paper, I argue that we can better understand the boundaries between medicine and philosophy in antiquity by focusing instead on the difference between causes and motivations (or causes and desires). The reason is this. It is not the case that the writers of the Hippocratic …
The Poetic Logic of Negative Exceptionalism in Lucretius, Book Five
Antigone at Colonus and the End(s) of Tragedy
Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus , it would seem, is an exercise in closure. In the opening scene, Oedipus, worn down by years of wandering blind and hungry, arrives at the borders of Athens. Here is where his legendary sufferings—his murder of his father, his incestuous marriage to his mother, his betrayal by his sons, his exile from Thebes—are fated to end. Following his miraculous death, his body will become a sacred gift to the city that receive…
The poetics of anthropogony: Men, women, and children in Lucretius, book five
“The Poetics of Anthropogony: Men, Women, and Children in Lucretius, Book Five” analyzes how Lucretius handles a significant problem in Epicurean accounts of the origins of humans and human culture – namely, how a species that, unlike any other, enters the world “in need of every kind of vital support” (indigus omni uitali auxilio) as Lucretius himself famously writes in an argument against a providential ordering of the cosmos, ever managed to s…
Greco-Roman Ethics and the Naturalistic Fantasy
To modern scholars, the naturalistic fallacy looks out of place in Greco-Roman antiquity owing to the robust associations between nature, especially human nature, and moral norms. Yet nature was understood by ancient authors not only as a norm but also as a form of necessity. The Greco-Roman philosophical schools grappled with how to reconcile the idea that human nature is given with the idea that it is a goal to be reached. This essay looks at t…
Lucretius on Creation and Evolution: A Commentary on De rerum natura 5.772-1104
Of course, strictly speaking, the Epicureans are not atheists; but their gods 1 inhabit another world and care not a whit for humankind, which is to say that their brand of humanism is aggressively secular.
Proto-Sympathy in the Hippocratic Corpus
The Frontiers of Ancient Science: Essays in Honor of Heinrich von Staden
Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The fields of ancient science and mathematics have in recent years witnessed remarkable growth. The present volume brings together contributions from more than thirty of the most important scholars working in these fields in the United States and Europe in honor…
The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece
Antigone Again: Conspiracy and Curse
Bonnie Honig’s recently published book, Antigone, Interrupted, is a significant new contribution to ongoing debates in philosophy, political theory, and literary studies about the reception of Sophocles’s Antigone. This review analyzes the strengths of Honig’s readings, the theory of “agonistic humanism” that they support, and the book’s deft navigation of the relationship between interpretation and theorizing. It also queries the emphasis on Ant…
Tragedy in the Crosshairs of the Present
A number of developments in the study of Greek literature over the past few decades have broken down boundaries of canon and genre, opening up a wide range of texts once deemed degenerate or unavailable to literary analysis, expanding the networks within which literary texts are interpreted, and bringing renewed attention to the reception of ancient texts in later periods up to the present. The rise of reception studies, in particular, raises new…
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
The Generous Text: Animal Intuition, Human Knowledge and Written Transmission in Pliny's Books on Medicine
Hyperinclusivity, Hypercanonicity, and the Future of the Field
The canon has long served as a means of controlling the information that the professional classicist, who is facing a vast field of potentially relevant material, can be expected to possess. But recent developments (e.g. the rise of reception studies, a broadened definition of the ancient Mediterranean, comparative antiquities) have put pressure on this strategy. In this chapter we consider the limitations of two possible responses to such a situ…
Marginality, Canonicity, Passion
In recent years the discipline of classics has been experiencing a profound transformation, which affects not only methodologies and hermeneutic practices (i.e. how classicists read and interpret ancient literature) but also, and more importantly, the objects of study themselves (i.e. what they read and interpret). One of the most important factors has been the establishment of reception studies. The reception of classical literature and culture …
On Stoic sympathy: Cosmobiology and the life of nature
This chapter analyses the Stoic concept of cosmic sympathy. The Stoics contribute to the conceptualization of a web of interconnected natures in antiquity by making sympathy visible as a feature of the world, encompassing both humans and non-humans. Holmes argues that the Stoic conceptualization of sympathy offers an experiment in thinking through the contradictions of cosmic organicism or “cosmobiology” insofar as it affirms both the integrity o…
At the end of the line: On kairological history
This essay examines, from a position within Classics, different angles on critiques of historicism and the turn to anachronism in History, Art History, Medieval Studies, and Queer Theory before proposing the idea of ‘kairological history’, on the model of the artist Paul Chan’s ‘kairological art’. On this analysis, ‘kairological history’ engages the critical and creative resources of anachronic thinking alongside tools of historicism (e.g. empiri…
History (20 works) · Philosophy (19 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (17 works) · Art (16 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (16 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Literature (14 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Psychology (10 works)