2002, ISBN: 9781890951085

New York, Zone Books, 358 p. Original cloth with dust jacket. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (… Mehr…

New York, Zone Books, 358 p. Original cloth with dust jacket. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Condition: In very good condition. / Zustand: Im sehr guten Zustand. - Content: It all began with Cleocritus?s speech in Xenophon?s Hellenica. The Athenian democrats had just overcome the army of the Thirty. Some of the most important oligarchs ? including Critias and Charmides, Socrates?s erstwhile listeners whose names would later appear in Plato?s dialogues ? were among the dead. Most of the ?city? troops were no doubt demoralized, a large number of hoplites having been vanquished by a motley crew equipped with whatever weapons they could find.... In the exultation of victory, the time was ripe for revenge, especially for those democrats who just before battle had been reminded by Thrasybulus of the ?war? that the Thirty had waged against them and of the abuses suffered at their hands. Yet at that moment, an Athenian citizen, bearing the mystical seal of Eleusis, stepped before the democrats? lines to ask his hostile countrymen: ?You who share the city with us, why do you kill us?? The question itself was incongruous (or, on the contrary, anachronistically familiar); it was a democrat?s question, to be sure, because an oligarch would already know the answer: one?s opponent is the enemy. But it was no more incongruous than die amnesty it announced, through which the victors would bind diemselves to their former opponents, swearing the most solemn oath "not to recall misfortunes of the past." The problem was to understand why, on that day in 403 b.c., the pacifist Cleocritus became the spokesman for the victorious army of the ?Piraeus democrats.? This was the point of departure for a long-term inquiry into what the city experiences as stasis, to use the Greek term for what is simultaneously partisanship, faction, sedition, and ? as we say in an expression with very Roman connotations ? civil war. The initial project, occasionally shelved over the years but never forgotten, was to interrogate in a Greek context the specifically democratic ? and therefore, in this case, Athenian ? thinking on conflict, insofar as conflict is bound together, whether in opposition or affinity, with the definition of the political.1 Along the way, I saw that it was necessary to establish and locate conflict in the city, because, under the name of politics, conflict is always already constitutive of the city. It is perhaps this primal link, rather than more recent ?misfortunes,? that the Greeks ? and not only the Greeks ? would like to forget in their proclamation of amnesty. But did I ever expect to find anything else? I had to find a way to begin. I started my investigation ? caught up in the enthusiasm that comes with beginnings ? by laying out a sort of program, one that I have never ceased to develop since. After that, things became complicated, as I knew they would. It is no doubt impossible to work on conflict without repercussions, and it is futile to hope that one can approach the forgetting that founds the political without triggering a return of the repressed.... Linking the divided city with the peaceful polis ? a project caught between history and anthropology ? turned out to be a less serene task than one might at first have hoped (however unadvisedly), especially when it became apparent that it would be impossible to avoid questioning what the polis, as a thinking and willing authority, was for thexGreeks. Hence my conviction that it was necessary to risk a confrontation with the interdiction of the ?subject,? that lowest common denominator, around which, in something resembling unanimity, gather the researchers who, in every other respect, remain separated. The following texts, composed for journals or research institutions over eight years, bear witness to these earlier mappings of the divided city, to the permanent features found there, and to the deviations and divergent movements in the questioning itself. ISBN 9781890951085Antike 2002<

2002, ISBN: 9781890951085

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Zone Books, Gebundene Ausgabe, 360 Seiten, Publiziert: 2002-03-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 9781890951085, 0.68 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2536642, Philosophie, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Politische Ideologien, Politikwissenschaft, Fachbücher, Allgemein, Klassische Antike, Epochen, Politik & Geschichte, Griechenland, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Featured Categories, Englische Bücher, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_2301, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_0, Arborist Merchandising Root, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4901, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_0, Special Features Stores, Zone Books, 2002<

2002, ISBN: 9781890951085

Zone Books, Hardcover, 360 Seiten, Publiziert: 2002-03-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 9781890951085, 0.68 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2603046, Philosophie, Sozialwissenschaft, K… Mehr…

Zone Books, Hardcover, 360 Seiten, Publiziert: 2002-03-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 9781890951085, 0.68 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2603046, Philosophie, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Politische Ideologien, Politikwissenschaft, Fachbücher, Allgemein, Klassische Antike, Epochen, Politik & Geschichte, Griechenland, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Featured Categories, Englische Bücher, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_2301, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_0, Arborist Merchandising Root, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4901, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_0, Special Features Stores, Zone Books, 2002<