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- catalog abstract "In this book J. Peter Euben argues that Greek tragedy was the context for classical political theory and that such theory read in terms of tragedy provides a ground for contemporary theorizing alert to the concerns of post-modernism, such as normalization, the dominance of humanism, and the status of theory. Euben shows how ancient Greek theater offered a place and occasion for reflection on the democratic culture it helped constitute, in part by confronting the audience with the otherwise unacknowledged principles of social exclusion that sustained its community. Euben makes his argument through a series of comparisons between three dramas (Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos, and Euripides' Bacchae) and three works of classical political theory (Thucydides' History and Plato's Apology of Socrates and Republic) on the issues of justice, identity, and corruption. He brings his discussion to a contemporary American setting in a concluding chapter on Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 in which the road from Argos to Athens, built to differentiate a human domain from the undefined outside, has become a Los Angeles freeway desecrating the land and its people in a predatory urban sprawl.".
- catalog contributor b2686600.
- catalog coverage "Greece Politics and government.".
- catalog created "c1990.".
- catalog date "1990".
- catalog date "c1990.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1990.".
- catalog description "Conventions and misgivings -- The road not taken -- Greek tragedy and political theory -- Justice and the oresteia -- Identity and the Oedipus tyrannos -- Membership and "dismembership" in the bacchae -- Political theory and tragedy -- The Corcyrean revolution: corruption, dismemberment, and political theory in Thucydides' History -- Plato's apology of Socrates: political identity and political philosophy -- Plato's republic: the justice of tragedy -- The road home: Pynchon's the crying of lot 49.".
- catalog description "Euben makes his argument through a series of comparisons between three dramas (Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos, and Euripides' Bacchae) and three works of classical political theory (Thucydides' History and Plato's Apology of Socrates and Republic) on the issues of justice, identity, and corruption. He brings his discussion to a contemporary American setting in a concluding chapter on Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 in which the road from Argos to Athens, built to differentiate a human domain from the undefined outside, has become a Los Angeles freeway desecrating the land and its people in a predatory urban sprawl.".
- catalog description "In this book J. Peter Euben argues that Greek tragedy was the context for classical political theory and that such theory read in terms of tragedy provides a ground for contemporary theorizing alert to the concerns of post-modernism, such as normalization, the dominance of humanism, and the status of theory. Euben shows how ancient Greek theater offered a place and occasion for reflection on the democratic culture it helped constitute, in part by confronting the audience with the otherwise unacknowledged principles of social exclusion that sustained its community.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 314 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "069102314X (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0691078319 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1990".
- catalog issued "c1990.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Greece Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Greece.".
- catalog subject "882/.0109 20".
- catalog subject "Greek drama (Tragedy) History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PA3136 .E93 1990".
- catalog subject "Political plays, Greek History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Political science Greece.".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Greece.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Conventions and misgivings -- The road not taken -- Greek tragedy and political theory -- Justice and the oresteia -- Identity and the Oedipus tyrannos -- Membership and "dismembership" in the bacchae -- Political theory and tragedy -- The Corcyrean revolution: corruption, dismemberment, and political theory in Thucydides' History -- Plato's apology of Socrates: political identity and political philosophy -- Plato's republic: the justice of tragedy -- The road home: Pynchon's the crying of lot 49.".
- catalog title "The tragedy of political theory : the road not taken / J. Peter Euben.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".