Antiquity and Modernity

"Morley's wide-ranging and ambitious study subjects the mythology of 'modernity' to an incisive critique. This provocative and original book asserts the persistent significance of concepts of antiquity in underpinning the most quintessentially and self-consciously 'modern' disciplines of economics and sociology."
–Catharine Edwards, Birkbeck College

"Morley's study opens a fascinating window onto the history of the shifting ideas of antiquity and the correlative sciences of modernity – onto the ever-changing and still ongoing dilemma of their mutual dependency. Probing the uncertain 'logic of modernity,' Morley obliges us to ask whether, if we have never been modern, was antiquity ever ancient? This is a much-needed reassessment of the classical European traditions of economic, sociological, and political theory."
–James I. Porter, University of Michigan