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Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy
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Continnuum-3pl Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35418082
EAN: 9781628922509
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Zustellung: Di, 01.09.2026
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Beschreibung
This engaging work tells the story of democracy through the perspective of tragic drama. It shows how the ancient tales of greatness and its loss point to the potential dangers of democracy then and now. Greek Tragedy. dramatized a variety of stories, characters, and voices drawn from reality, especially from those marginalized by Athens's democracy. It brought up dissident figures through its multivocal form, disrupting the perception of an ordered reality. Today, this helps us grasp the reality of Athenian democracy, that is, a system steeped in patriarchy, slavery, warmongering, and xenophobia. The book reads through two renditions of Aeschylus' Suppliants. as democratic texts for the twenty-first century, to show how such multivocal dramas actually address not only the pitfalls of our contemporary democracy, but also a range of environmental, security, socio-economic, and political dilemmas that afflict democratic politics today. Written in a very accessible manner, Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy. is a lively book that will appeal to any political science and international relations student interested in issues of democracy, governance, democratic peace, and democratic theory.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Mark Chou
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2014
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 210