Dean Hammer
Biographic Data
| ID | 323679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dean Hammer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dean |
| FAMILY NAME | Hammer |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Franklin & Marshall College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rome and America: Communities of Strangers, Spectacles of Belonging
Rome and America provides a timely exploration of the Roman and American founding myths in the cultural imagination. Defying the usual ideological categories, Dean Hammer argues for the exceptional nature of the myths as a journey of Strangers, but also traces the tensions created by the myths in attempts to answer the question of who We are. The wide-ranging chapters reassess both Roman antecedents and American expressions of the myth in some un…
Rome and America: Communities of Strangers, Spectacles of Belonging
Books 4 & 5: Roman Religion and Just Power
In the first three books of City of God , Augustine begins to defend Christianity against those who blame it for the sack of Rome. More specifically, Augustine is responding to both the written theological questions of the pagan Volusian, the proconsul of Africa ( ep . 135), and Volusian’s spoken concerns relayed by his Christian friend, Marcellinus ( ep . 136), that Christianity and Roman citizenship were incompatible. In his aim of exonerating …
The Return of the Romans
The Roman Republic and the Crisis of American Democracy: Echoes of the Past
My starting point is a fundamental paradox that lies at the heart of the slow demise of the Roman Republic: why does the system collapse when, as many scholars have noted, there is nothing that suggests that there was ever an intention by anyone to overthrow the Republic? Understanding this paradox is key to identifying what Rome might have to say to us today. What changes in the final decades of the Roman Republic is a declining view of the abil…
Thomas E. Strunk. History after Liberty: Tacitus on Tyrants, Sycophants, and Republicans
Against views that the Roman imagination was imprisoned by the principate, Thomas E. Strunk sets out to argue in History after Liberty that “Tacitus himself was neither hindered by imagination nor shackled by the Principate in his political thought” (1). Strunk’s point of departure is with contemporary scholarship that, as he suggests, either has interpreted Tacitus as less critical of and more sympathetic with monarchical elements (the “Black” r…
Roman Political Thought: From Cicero to Augustine
This book is the first comprehensive treatment of Roman political thought, arguing that Romans engaged in wide-ranging reflections on politics
Crisis and Constitutionalism: Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution, written by Benjamin Straumann
Imperial Politics and Legislation in Roman Africa
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Foucault, Sovereignty, and Governmentality in the Roman Republic
The originality of Foucault’s work lies in part in how he reverses the question of power, asking not how power is held and imposed, but how it is produced. In both his discussion of sovereignty and governmentality, though, Foucault skips over the res publica; a form of political organization that fits neither Foucault’s characterization of sovereignty nor the care of the self. I extend Foucault’s discussion to identify a ratio of government aroun…
Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter, written by Melissa Lane
A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic
Roman Political Thought
For many Polybius (ca. 200–118 bce) serves as the entrée into Roman political thought: a Greek theorizing about a Roman political system that had already achieved empire. For Polybius, Rome's ability to attain power while also preserving liberty lay in large part in its political system, which contained aristocratic (the senate), democratic (the people), and monarchical (the consuls) elements. We know Rome politically through its institutions. Bu…
Thomas Hobbes, Translations of Homer , 2 vols, edited by Eric Nelson. Clarendon, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008
Roman Spectacle Entertainments and the Technology of Reality
Roman spectacle entertainment has attracted substantial scholarly interest because of renewed ways in which politics is seen as culturally enacted. Less attention has been paid to the technologies associated with these spectacles. When discussed, technologies emerge as a manufactured form of manipulation by a knowing elite over a gullible populace that heightened the anticipation of violence or magnified the charisma and prestige of the emperor. …
Simone Weil'sIliad: The Power of Words
Simone Weil's work has always been appreciated for its evocative beauty, but not always for its potential contributions to political thought. In this essay, we engage in a reappraisal of her political thought, and of her relevance to contemporary politics, by way of her discussion of the power of words. Weil shares much with contemporary approaches that view the world as a text to be interpreted. But for Weil, the power of interpretation carries …
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought provides a guide to understanding the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought, from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans. Composed of essays specially commissioned for this volume and written by leading scholars of classics, political science, and philosophy, the Companion brings these texts to life by analysing what they have to tell us about the problems of poli…
Perceiving Sacredness in Life: Correlates and Predictors
Building on research demonstrating relationships between well being and perceptions of aspects of life as sacred, this study describes the rationale for and development of a scale measuring perceiving sacredness in life. It then explores associations between perceptions of sacredness in life and these four domains: religious/spiritual (intrinsic/extrinsic religiosity, quest, mysticism, religious/spiritual history, worship attendance, frequency of…
The Iliad as Ethical Thinking: Politics, Pity, and the Operation of Esteem 1
Plato's banishment of Homer from his philosophic republic is well known. The problem with the Homeric epic for Plato is that it imitates phenomenal appearance (phainomena) as it depicts the shadowy world of human action. Unlike Homer, whose art can tell us nothing about how to live because it merely imitates what we already do, the philosophic craft, as it draws its inspiration from the contemplation of truth, is capable of producing political ju…
The Iliad as politics: The Performance of Political Thought
Hannah Arendt and Roman Political Thought: The Practice of Theory
A rendt's work shows continual intellectual engagement with the Romans. She refers to the genius of Rome as legislation and foundation.' She suggests that the one political experience which brought authority as word, concept, and reality into our history-the Roman experience of foundation has been almost entirely lost and forgotten.2 She describes the Romans' loving care of the world which underlay their distinctive of culture.3 She attributes to…
Freedom and Fatefulness: Augustine, Arendt and the Journey Of Memory
This article reassesses Arendt's relationship to Augustine, exploring the Augustinian context for Arendt's own thinking about the relationship between thought and action. What Arendt drew from Augustine, the contours of which remain in her later work, is a journey of memory in which reflection, as it removes us from the world, paradoxically reveals us as inserted into this world. Out of this ontology of origins emerges an ethic of beginning as we…
The Politics of Courage: Kennedy's Profiles as Political Thought
Between Positivism and Postmodernism: Hannah Arendt on the Formation of Policy Judgments
A growing body of scholarship has pointed to the problems of positivist assumptions that underlie policy analysis. Scholars have noted that neither the ends nor the methods by which judgments are derived are unambiguous or value‐free. In the place of a positivist epistemology, some scholars have argued for a view of policy analysis as a rhetorical activity. In this view, the analyst becomes a participant in strategies of persuasion in‐which the r…
The Cultural Construction of Chance in the Iliad
The Cultural Construction of Chance in the Iliad* Dean C. Hammer Jean-Pierre Vernant (1990a, 1990b, 1990c) argues in a series of essays that the tragic sense of responsibility that develops in fifth-century Athenian drama arises at a point at which individuals are developing sufficient autonomy to begin making choices for which they are responsible, but are still tied to an inscrutable divine order that binds, even traps, individuals by their dec…
Roman Political Thought: From Cicero to Augustine
This book is the first comprehensive treatment of Roman political thought, arguing that Romans engaged in wide-ranging reflections on politics
Simone Weil'sIliad: The Power of Words
Simone Weil's work has always been appreciated for its evocative beauty, but not always for its potential contributions to political thought. In this essay, we engage in a reappraisal of her political thought, and of her relevance to contemporary politics, by way of her discussion of the power of words. Weil shares much with contemporary approaches that view the world as a text to be interpreted. But for Weil, the power of interpretation carries …
Hannah Arendt and Roman Political Thought: The Practice of Theory
A rendt's work shows continual intellectual engagement with the Romans. She refers to the genius of Rome as legislation and foundation.' She suggests that the one political experience which brought authority as word, concept, and reality into our history-the Roman experience of foundation has been almost entirely lost and forgotten.2 She describes the Romans' loving care of the world which underlay their distinctive of culture.3 She attributes to…
Hannah Arendt, identity and the politics of visibility
1997). Hannah Arendt, identity and the politics of visibility. Contemporary Politics: Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 321-339
The Roman Republic and the Crisis of American Democracy: Echoes of the Past
My starting point is a fundamental paradox that lies at the heart of the slow demise of the Roman Republic: why does the system collapse when, as many scholars have noted, there is nothing that suggests that there was ever an intention by anyone to overthrow the Republic? Understanding this paradox is key to identifying what Rome might have to say to us today. What changes in the final decades of the Roman Republic is a declining view of the abil…
Foucault, Sovereignty, and Governmentality in the Roman Republic
The originality of Foucault’s work lies in part in how he reverses the question of power, asking not how power is held and imposed, but how it is produced. In both his discussion of sovereignty and governmentality, though, Foucault skips over the res publica; a form of political organization that fits neither Foucault’s characterization of sovereignty nor the care of the self. I extend Foucault’s discussion to identify a ratio of government aroun…
Roman Political Thought
For many Polybius (ca. 200–118 bce) serves as the entrée into Roman political thought: a Greek theorizing about a Roman political system that had already achieved empire. For Polybius, Rome's ability to attain power while also preserving liberty lay in large part in its political system, which contained aristocratic (the senate), democratic (the people), and monarchical (the consuls) elements. We know Rome politically through its institutions. Bu…
Roman Spectacle Entertainments and the Technology of Reality
Roman spectacle entertainment has attracted substantial scholarly interest because of renewed ways in which politics is seen as culturally enacted. Less attention has been paid to the technologies associated with these spectacles. When discussed, technologies emerge as a manufactured form of manipulation by a knowing elite over a gullible populace that heightened the anticipation of violence or magnified the charisma and prestige of the emperor. …
Freedom and Fatefulness: Augustine, Arendt and the Journey Of Memory
This article reassesses Arendt's relationship to Augustine, exploring the Augustinian context for Arendt's own thinking about the relationship between thought and action. What Arendt drew from Augustine, the contours of which remain in her later work, is a journey of memory in which reflection, as it removes us from the world, paradoxically reveals us as inserted into this world. Out of this ontology of origins emerges an ethic of beginning as we…
The Interactive Journal: Creating A Learning Space
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Achilles as Vagabond: "The Culture of Autonomy in the "Iliad
Meaning & Tradition
What is meant by tradition? What gives tradition its continuity? This article begins with an exploration of Michael Oakeshott's defense of both tradition's continuity and the rich texture of human life, but finds that it does not account adequately for a tradition's continuity. The work of Hans-Georg Gadamer offers a refinement of Oakeshott's view of tradition, but where Oakeshott emphasizes habit, Gadamer emphasizes reflectivity. The author conc…
Meaning & Tradition
What is meant by tradition? What gives tradition its continuity? This article begins with an exploration of Michael Oakeshott's defense of both tradition's continuity and the rich texture of human life, but finds that it does not account adequately for a tradition's continuity. The work of Hans-Georg Gadamer offers a refinement of Oakeshott's view of tradition, but where Oakeshott emphasizes habit, Gadamer emphasizes reflectivity. The author conc…
Giving Flesh to Ideas: Constructing a Cultural Dialogue
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Award Recipients
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The Historical Novelist as Didaction: Safire's Lincoln
Blasphemy: Verbal Offense against the Sacred, from Moses to Salmon Rushdie
Journal Article Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, From Moses to Salmon Rushdie, by Leonard W. Levy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993 Get access Dean C. Hammer Dean C. Hammer Memphis State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 55, Issue 3, Fall 1994, Pages 363–364, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712060 Published: 01 October 1994
The Puritans as Founders: The Quest for Identity in Early Whig Rhetoric
In looking at the politics of the opening decades of the nineteenth Century, scholarly attention has been drawn to the self-destruction of the Federalists, the ascendancy of the Jeffersonian Republicans, or the emergence of the Jacksonian Democrats. What gets lost in the way scholars view this political drama is the coalescence of an American Whig identity, forged in the decade of the 1820's. At least part of this inattention can be explained by …
The Interactive Journal: Creating A Learning Space
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Achilles as Vagabond: "The Culture of Autonomy in the "Iliad
Hannah Arendt, identity and the politics of visibility
1997). Hannah Arendt, identity and the politics of visibility. Contemporary Politics: Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 321-339
Who Shall Readily Obey: "Authority and Politics in the "Iliad
The Cultural Construction of Chance in the Iliad
The Cultural Construction of Chance in the Iliad* Dean C. Hammer Jean-Pierre Vernant (1990a, 1990b, 1990c) argues in a series of essays that the tragic sense of responsibility that develops in fifth-century Athenian drama arises at a point at which individuals are developing sufficient autonomy to begin making choices for which they are responsible, but are still tied to an inscrutable divine order that binds, even traps, individuals by their dec…
The Politics of Courage: Kennedy's Profiles as Political Thought
Between Positivism and Postmodernism: Hannah Arendt on the Formation of Policy Judgments
A growing body of scholarship has pointed to the problems of positivist assumptions that underlie policy analysis. Scholars have noted that neither the ends nor the methods by which judgments are derived are unambiguous or value‐free. In the place of a positivist epistemology, some scholars have argued for a view of policy analysis as a rhetorical activity. In this view, the analyst becomes a participant in strategies of persuasion in‐which the r…
Freedom and Fatefulness: Augustine, Arendt and the Journey Of Memory
This article reassesses Arendt's relationship to Augustine, exploring the Augustinian context for Arendt's own thinking about the relationship between thought and action. What Arendt drew from Augustine, the contours of which remain in her later work, is a journey of memory in which reflection, as it removes us from the world, paradoxically reveals us as inserted into this world. Out of this ontology of origins emerges an ethic of beginning as we…
The Iliad as Ethical Thinking: Politics, Pity, and the Operation of Esteem 1
Plato's banishment of Homer from his philosophic republic is well known. The problem with the Homeric epic for Plato is that it imitates phenomenal appearance (phainomena) as it depicts the shadowy world of human action. Unlike Homer, whose art can tell us nothing about how to live because it merely imitates what we already do, the philosophic craft, as it draws its inspiration from the contemplation of truth, is capable of producing political ju…
The Iliad as politics: The Performance of Political Thought
Hannah Arendt and Roman Political Thought: The Practice of Theory
A rendt's work shows continual intellectual engagement with the Romans. She refers to the genius of Rome as legislation and foundation.' She suggests that the one political experience which brought authority as word, concept, and reality into our history-the Roman experience of foundation has been almost entirely lost and forgotten.2 She describes the Romans' loving care of the world which underlay their distinctive of culture.3 She attributes to…
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought provides a guide to understanding the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought, from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans. Composed of essays specially commissioned for this volume and written by leading scholars of classics, political science, and philosophy, the Companion brings these texts to life by analysing what they have to tell us about the problems of poli…
Perceiving Sacredness in Life: Correlates and Predictors
Building on research demonstrating relationships between well being and perceptions of aspects of life as sacred, this study describes the rationale for and development of a scale measuring perceiving sacredness in life. It then explores associations between perceptions of sacredness in life and these four domains: religious/spiritual (intrinsic/extrinsic religiosity, quest, mysticism, religious/spiritual history, worship attendance, frequency of…
Roman Spectacle Entertainments and the Technology of Reality
Roman spectacle entertainment has attracted substantial scholarly interest because of renewed ways in which politics is seen as culturally enacted. Less attention has been paid to the technologies associated with these spectacles. When discussed, technologies emerge as a manufactured form of manipulation by a knowing elite over a gullible populace that heightened the anticipation of violence or magnified the charisma and prestige of the emperor. …
Simone Weil'sIliad: The Power of Words
Simone Weil's work has always been appreciated for its evocative beauty, but not always for its potential contributions to political thought. In this essay, we engage in a reappraisal of her political thought, and of her relevance to contemporary politics, by way of her discussion of the power of words. Weil shares much with contemporary approaches that view the world as a text to be interpreted. But for Weil, the power of interpretation carries …
Thomas Hobbes, Translations of Homer , 2 vols, edited by Eric Nelson. Clarendon, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008
A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic
Roman Political Thought
For many Polybius (ca. 200–118 bce) serves as the entrée into Roman political thought: a Greek theorizing about a Roman political system that had already achieved empire. For Polybius, Rome's ability to attain power while also preserving liberty lay in large part in its political system, which contained aristocratic (the senate), democratic (the people), and monarchical (the consuls) elements. We know Rome politically through its institutions. Bu…
Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter, written by Melissa Lane
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