Building the City. Essay in historical sociology on the communities of Greek archaism.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 22254 |
| Format | 15 x 21.5 |
| Détails | 340 p., paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Paris, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251450285 |
Firmly equating the polis with a community of individuals, the book aims to rethink the history of the pre-classical Greek city by focusing on the social and political mechanisms at work in the constitution and maintenance of civic solidarity. Since Fustel de Coulanges's The Ancient City (1864), the Greek city has given rise to multiple traditions of research. "It is men who make the city," noted Alcaeus and Thucydides. Firmly equating the polis with a community of individuals, the book aims to rethink the history of the pre-classical Greek city by focusing on the social and political mechanisms at work in the constitution and maintenance of civic solidarity. Building the city therefore concerns society and its structure. How were these communities formed? How did its members recognize one another? And how were these communities perpetuated or reconfigured over the centuries? Through these three questions with obvious sociological roots, the Greek city appears as the product of complex mechanisms of inclusion of some and exclusion of others, where the rules of living together and the maintenance of social forms were constantly reformulated.
Firmly equating the polis with a community of individuals, the book aims to rethink the history of the pre-classical Greek city by focusing on the social and political mechanisms at work in the constitution and maintenance of civic solidarity. Since Fustel de Coulanges's The Ancient City (1864), the Greek city has given rise to multiple traditions of research. "It is men who make the city," noted Alcaeus and Thucydides. Firmly equating the polis with a community of individuals, the book aims to rethink the history of the pre-classical Greek city by focusing on the social and political mechanisms at work in the constitution and maintenance of civic solidarity. Building the city therefore concerns society and its structure. How were these communities formed? How did its members recognize one another? And how were these communities perpetuated or reconfigured over the centuries? Through these three questions with obvious sociological roots, the Greek city appears as the product of complex mechanisms of inclusion of some and exclusion of others, where the rules of living together and the maintenance of social forms were constantly reformulated.