Daniel Orrells
Biographic Data
| ID | 1429065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Orrells |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Orrells |
| SIGNATURE | ORRELLS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8428-2767 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Mudimbe reader
A monograph that is dedicated to the work of Valentin Yves Mudimbe. It charts the history of the seminal Congolese philosopher, epistemologist, and philologist from the late 1960s to the present day, exploring his major essays and novels. It highlights Mudimbe's trajectory through major debates on African nationalism, and Panafricanism
Ancient Sex
414 PHOENIX of athletes (71–72) and offers an instructive analysis of Plutarch’s two versions of how the bad news travelled from Sicily to Athens (75–78). She outlines how festivals for the same divinities or in memory of the same triumphs or featuring the same events helped fashion an interwoven network of the fractious communities of the Greek world (216–219). The race in armour is (rightly) said to appear on so many vases because of its artist…
Oedipus in Africa
The history of modern European thought has characterized the pursuit of philosophy as an essentially Greek occupation. The Greco-Roman philosophical tradition has also provided models and alibis for the European colonial project. What, then, does it mean to be an African philosopher in this historical context? Can the African philosopher utilize the Greco-Roman tradition for the sake of postcolonialist critique? Or does the African philosopher en…
Introduction
Journal Article Introduction: Inventive Inscriptions – The Organization of Epigraphic Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century Get access Daniel Orrells Daniel Orrells Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 26, Issue 3, November 2014, Pages 329–336, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhu017 Published: 23 June 2014
Contesting Imperial Epistemologies
This special issue addresses theEurocentred nature of knowledge production by examining alternative loci of knowledge production and the consequences of subverting standard narratives of particular events and conceptual paradigms through a focus on "other" places and traditions of thought, especially those formed in colonial encounters. In contesting imperial epistemologies, this special issue draws together contributors working on a variety of g…
Freud's Rome
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 197 and I are in complete agreement that meter matters, or that it may at any moment matter, in our reading and interpretation. Harvard University Richard F. Thomas Freud's Rome: Psychoanalysis and Latin Poetry. By Ellen Oliensis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2009. Pp. xi, 148. Ellen Oliensis's book provides provocative, witty, and highly enjoyable analyses of themes we might consider “psychoanalytical” in th…
African AthenaNew Agendas
The appearance of Martin Bernal's Black Athena: The Afro-Asian Roots of Classical Civilization in 1987 sparked intense debate and controversy in Africa, Europe, and North America. His detailed genealogy of the ‘fabrication of Greece’ and his claims for the influence of ancient African and Near Eastern cultures on the making of classical Greece, questioned many intellectuals' assumptions about the nature of ancient history. The transportation of e…
Classical culture and modern masculinity
For nineteenth-century thinkers in Germany and Britain, who looked to Greece as the acme of past civilization, the Greeks' enjoyment of pederasty presented a problem. Daniel Orrells's study explores the way in which this awkward issue was negotiated.
Conclusion
This book examines how “Greek Love” for several intellectuals and writers was never simply a straightforward euphemism for modern homosexuality. Instead ancient Greek pederasty provoked German, English and Irish writers to examine the historical differences between ancient and modern. The conclusion turns, finally, to consider briefly two more recent efforts to historicize Greek pederasty and evaluate its meaning for the present: Michel Foucault'…
African Athena
Burying and excavating Winckelmann's History of Art
This article examines the early responses to Winckelmann’s 1764 ‘History of the Art of Antiquity’. Recently, scholars have become especially interested in the early reception of Winckelmann's work. This discussion makes productive use of that debate, to examine how eighteenth-century translators of Winckelmann set about inventing an image of him as the founding father of classical art history and archaeology. This essay examines how the early Fre…
Contesting Imperial Epistemologies
This special issue addresses theEurocentred nature of knowledge production by examining alternative loci of knowledge production and the consequences of subverting standard narratives of particular events and conceptual paradigms through a focus on "other" places and traditions of thought, especially those formed in colonial encounters. In contesting imperial epistemologies, this special issue draws together contributors working on a variety of g…
Burying and excavating Winckelmann's History of Art
This article examines the early responses to Winckelmann’s 1764 ‘History of the Art of Antiquity’. Recently, scholars have become especially interested in the early reception of Winckelmann's work. This discussion makes productive use of that debate, to examine how eighteenth-century translators of Winckelmann set about inventing an image of him as the founding father of classical art history and archaeology. This essay examines how the early Fre…
African AthenaNew Agendas
The appearance of Martin Bernal's Black Athena: The Afro-Asian Roots of Classical Civilization in 1987 sparked intense debate and controversy in Africa, Europe, and North America. His detailed genealogy of the ‘fabrication of Greece’ and his claims for the influence of ancient African and Near Eastern cultures on the making of classical Greece, questioned many intellectuals' assumptions about the nature of ancient history. The transportation of e…
Classical culture and modern masculinity
For nineteenth-century thinkers in Germany and Britain, who looked to Greece as the acme of past civilization, the Greeks' enjoyment of pederasty presented a problem. Daniel Orrells's study explores the way in which this awkward issue was negotiated.
Conclusion
This book examines how “Greek Love” for several intellectuals and writers was never simply a straightforward euphemism for modern homosexuality. Instead ancient Greek pederasty provoked German, English and Irish writers to examine the historical differences between ancient and modern. The conclusion turns, finally, to consider briefly two more recent efforts to historicize Greek pederasty and evaluate its meaning for the present: Michel Foucault'…
African Athena
Burying and excavating Winckelmann's History of Art
This article examines the early responses to Winckelmann’s 1764 ‘History of the Art of Antiquity’. Recently, scholars have become especially interested in the early reception of Winckelmann's work. This discussion makes productive use of that debate, to examine how eighteenth-century translators of Winckelmann set about inventing an image of him as the founding father of classical art history and archaeology. This essay examines how the early Fre…
Freud's Rome
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 197 and I are in complete agreement that meter matters, or that it may at any moment matter, in our reading and interpretation. Harvard University Richard F. Thomas Freud's Rome: Psychoanalysis and Latin Poetry. By Ellen Oliensis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2009. Pp. xi, 148. Ellen Oliensis's book provides provocative, witty, and highly enjoyable analyses of themes we might consider “psychoanalytical” in th…
Introduction
Journal Article Introduction: Inventive Inscriptions – The Organization of Epigraphic Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century Get access Daniel Orrells Daniel Orrells Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 26, Issue 3, November 2014, Pages 329–336, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhu017 Published: 23 June 2014
Contesting Imperial Epistemologies
This special issue addresses theEurocentred nature of knowledge production by examining alternative loci of knowledge production and the consequences of subverting standard narratives of particular events and conceptual paradigms through a focus on "other" places and traditions of thought, especially those formed in colonial encounters. In contesting imperial epistemologies, this special issue draws together contributors working on a variety of g…
Oedipus in Africa
The history of modern European thought has characterized the pursuit of philosophy as an essentially Greek occupation. The Greco-Roman philosophical tradition has also provided models and alibis for the European colonial project. What, then, does it mean to be an African philosopher in this historical context? Can the African philosopher utilize the Greco-Roman tradition for the sake of postcolonialist critique? Or does the African philosopher en…
The Mudimbe reader
A monograph that is dedicated to the work of Valentin Yves Mudimbe. It charts the history of the seminal Congolese philosopher, epistemologist, and philologist from the late 1960s to the present day, exploring his major essays and novels. It highlights Mudimbe's trajectory through major debates on African nationalism, and Panafricanism
Ancient Sex
414 PHOENIX of athletes (71–72) and offers an instructive analysis of Plutarch’s two versions of how the bad news travelled from Sicily to Athens (75–78). She outlines how festivals for the same divinities or in memory of the same triumphs or featuring the same events helped fashion an interwoven network of the fractious communities of the Greek world (216–219). The race in armour is (rightly) said to appear on so many vases because of its artist…
Art (8 works) · History (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Classics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works)