Athens in Paris
Ancient Greece and the Political in Post-War French Thought
Series: Classical Presences;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 October 2005
- ISBN 9780199277254
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 224x144x21 mm
- Weight 488 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Athens in Paris explores the influence of ancient Greece on a group of seminal post-war French thinkers (including Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault) writing about modern politics. Miriam Leonard demonstrates the ways in which ancient debates about democracy and citizenship continue to be relevant to modern political and philosophical preoccupations.
MoreLong description:
Athens in Paris explores the ways in which the writings of the ancient Greeks played a decisive part in shaping the intellectual projects of structuralism and post-structuralism - arguably the most significant currents of thought of the post-war era. Miriam Leonard argues that thinkers in post-war France turned to the example of Athenian democracy in their debates over the role of political subjectivity and ethical choice in the life of the modern citizen. The authors she investigates, who include Lacan, Derrida, Foucault, and Vernant, have had an incalculable influence on the direction of classical studies over the last thirty years, but classicists have yet to give due attention to the crucial role of the ancient world in the development of their philosophy.
Leonard manages in this tour de force section of the book to keep several balls juggled at once, but returns elegantly and faithfully to her main point... dense and thought-provoking
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Oedipus and the Political Subject
Antigone between Ethics and Politics
Socrates and the Analytic City
Epilogue: Reception and the Political
