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在“谁杀了荷马?”维克多·戴维斯·汉森(Victor Davis Hanson)和约翰·希思(John Heath)认为,从性别和后殖民研究中借鉴的方法和理论是所谓的经典“危机”的原因。但是,关于古地中海研究和经典的最全面的书目数据库L' ann philologique显示,就古地中海研究出版物的数量而言,没有理由说存在危机。它还表明,在过去的一百年里,大型研究领域的出版物的相对数量大致保持不变。尽管有证据表明性别和后殖民研究影响了古代地中海研究的方法和目标,但将L’annacei philologique与其他数据库进行比较后发现,该领域的学者对人文学科“理论”的接触率最低(这里以性别研究、后殖民研究、人类学、社会学、法兰克福学派和精神分析学的典型概念和作者为代表)。
The Alleged Crisis of Classics and the Engagement with Theory in Ancient Mediterranean Studies: A Statistical Analysis of L'Année philologique
In “Who Killed Homer?” Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath identify approaches and theories borrowed from gender and postcolonial studies as the cause of the alleged “crisis” of classics. However, L'Année philologique, the most comprehensive bibliographical database dealing with ancient Mediterranean studies and classics, shows that there are no reasons to speak of a crisis as far as the volume of publications in ancient Mediterranean studies is concerned. It also demonstrates that the relative number of publications in large research areas has remained roughly the same for the last hundred years. Against anecdotal evidence suggesting that gender and postcolonial studies have affected the methods and objectives of ancient Mediterranean studies, a comparison of L'Année philologique with other databases suggests that scholars in the field have one of the lowest rates of engagement with “theory” in the humanities (here represented by concepts and authors typical of gender studies, postcolonial studies, anthropology, sociology, the Frankfurt school, and psychoanalysis).