The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens - Couverture rigide

Loraux, Nicole

 
9781890951085: The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens
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ISBN 10 : 1890951080 ISBN 13 : 9781890951085
Editeur : Zone Books, 2002

Synopsis

An exploration of the roles of conflict and forgetting in ancient Athens.

Athens, 403 B.C.E. The bloody oligarchic dictatorship of the Thirty is over, and the democrats have returned to the city victorious. Renouncing vengeance, in an act of willful amnesia, citizens call for―-if not invent―-amnesty. They agree to forget the unforgettable, the "past misfortunes," of civil strife or stasis. More precisely, what they agree to deny is that stasis―-simultaneously partisanship, faction, and sedition―-is at the heart of their politics. Continuing a criticism of Athenian ideology begun in her pathbreaking study The Invention of Athens, Nicole Loraux argues that this crucial moment of Athenian political history must be interpreted as constitutive of politics and political life and not as a threat to it. Divided from within, the city is formed by that which it refuses. Conflict, the calamity of civil war, is the other, dark side of the beautiful unitary city of Athens. In a brilliant analysis of the Greek word for voting, diaphora, Loraux underscores the conflictual and dynamic motion of democratic life. Voting appears as the process of dividing up, of disagreement―-in short, of agreeing to divide and choose. Not only does Loraux reconceptualize the definition of ancient Greek democracy, she also allows the contemporary reader to rethink the functioning of modern democracy in its critical moments of internal stasis.

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À propos de l?auteur

Nicole Loraux (1943-2003) was the author of The Divided City, The Children of Athena, The Experiences of Tiresias, Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman, and Mothers in Mourning, among other titles.

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Éditeur
Zone Books
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1890951080
ISBN 13 
9781890951085
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
360
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781890951092: The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1890951099 ISBN 13 :  9781890951092
Editeur : Zone Books, 2006
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