Tragedy and enlightenment : Athenian political thought and the dilemmas of modernity

Parallelsachtitel: Tragedy and enlightenment
1. Verfasser: Rocco, Christopher, 1958- , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (xv, 228 pages).
Schriftenreihe: Classics and contemporary thought 4
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: ISSN: 0-520-20494-8
Online Zugang: open access
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction : the persistence of the past
  • Sophocles' Oedipus tyrannos : the tragedy of enlightenment
  • Liberating discourse : the politics of truth in Plato's Gorgias
  • Plato's Republic : (con)founding the theoretical imagination
  • Democracy and discipline in Aeschylus's Oresteia
  • Conclusion : the tragedy of critical theory.