American Dionysia

Author : Steven Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316300846
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Dionysia written by Steven Johnston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence and tragedy riddle democracy - not due to fatal shortcomings or unnecessary failures, but because of its very design and success. To articulate this troubling claim, Steven Johnston explores the cruelty of democratic founding, the brutal use democracies make of citizens and animals during wartime, the ambiguous consequences of legislative action expressive of majority rule, and militant practices of citizenship required to deal with democracy's enemies. Democracy must take responsibility for its success: to rule in denial of violence merely replicates it. Johnston thus calls for the development of a tragic democratic politics and proposes institutional and civic responses to democracy's reign, including the reinvention of tragic festivals and holidays, a new breed of public memorials, and mandatory congressional reparations sessions. Theorizing the violent puzzle of democracy, Johnston addresses classic and contemporary political theory, films, little known monuments, the subversive music of Bruce Springsteen, and the potential of democratic violence by the people themselves.

Author : Steven Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107100607
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Dionysia written by Steven Johnston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Dionysia reveals that classic and contemporary resources of tragedy can counter the violence inherent in democracy.

Author : Simon Stow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107158060
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Mourning written by Simon Stow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful study employs public mourning as a lens to identify and address the shortcomings of American democracy.

Author : Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Journal of Philology written by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each number includes "Reviews and book notices."

Author : Mark E. Button
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190274964
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Vices written by Mark E. Button and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores our uniquely political vices: hubris, willful blindness, and recalcitrance. According to Mark Button this overlooked class of vice encompasses those persistent dispositions of character and conduct that threaten the functioning of democratic institutions and the trust that citizens place in these institutions to secure a just political order. Political Vices provides an account for how citizens can best contend with our most troubling political "sins" without undermining core commitments to liberalism or pluralism.

Author : Paul Cartledge
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468316079
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thebes written by Paul Cartledge and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting, definitive account of the ancient Greek city of Thebes, by the acclaimed author of The Spartans—now in paperback Among the extensive writing available about the history of ancient Greece, there is precious little about the city-state of Thebes. At one point the most powerful city in ancient Greece, Thebes has been long overshadowed by its better-known rivals, Athens and Sparta. In Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece, acclaimed classicist and historian Paul Cartledge brings the city vividly to life and argues that it is central to our understanding of the ancient Greeks’ achievements—whether politically or culturally—and thus to the wider politico-cultural traditions of western Europe, the Americas, and indeed the world. From its role as an ancient political power, to its destruction at the hands of Alexander the Great as punishment for a failed revolt, to its eventual restoration by Alexander’s successor, Cartledge deftly chronicles the rise and fall of the ancient city. He recounts the history with deep clarity and mastery for the subject and makes clear both the di?erences and the interconnections between the Thebes of myth and the Thebes of history. Written in clear prose and illustrated with images in two color inserts, Thebes is a gripping read for students of ancient history and those looking to experience the real city behind the myths of Cadmus, Hercules, and Oedipus.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Journal of Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens written by American School of Classical Studies at Athens and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appended to vols. 1-5 are statements concerning the school, regulations of the school, etc., dated Jan. 1885, Jan. 1888, Feb. 1892.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrés Fabián Henao Castro
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438484291
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antigone in the Americas written by Andrés Fabián Henao Castro and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophocles's classical tragedy, Antigone, is continually reinvented, particularly in the Americas. Theater practitioners and political theorists alike revisit the story to hold states accountable for their democratic exclusions, as Antigone did in disobeying the edict of her uncle, Creon, for refusing to bury her brother, Polynices. Antigone in the Americas not only analyzes the theoretical reception of Antigone, when resituated in the Americas, but further introduces decolonial rumination as a new interpretive methodology through which to approach classical texts. Traveling between modern present and ancient past, Andrés Fabián Henao Castro focuses on metics (resident aliens) and slaves, rather than citizens, making the feminist politics of burial long associated with Antigone relevant for theorizing militant forms of mourning in the global south. Grounded in settler colonial critique, black and woman of color feminisms, and queer and trans of color critique, Antigone in the Americas offers a more radical interpretation of Antigone, one relevant to subjects situated under multiple and interlocking systems of oppression.