Greece Outside Itself and Other Texts.
Klincksieck| N° d'inventaire | 23246 |
| Format | 14 x 22.5 |
| Détails | 800 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782252043356 |
This book brings together, in strictly chronological order, fifty-six articles written by Nicole Loraux between 1973 and 2003. It offers a reading of the discontinuous, experimental deployment of reflections readable on the same level as that of the published books, and the after-effect of the latter, their resumption on other levels - all these lines together drawing the vast cartography of a very singular work. The article "Greece outside itself and other texts", which gives its title to this collection, recalls the method by which Nicole Loraux has not ceased, in her own words, to "find in Greece (and in abundance) the means to make it come out of itself" by multiplying comparative strategies, the back and forth between the most diverse disciplinary fields (philosophy, psychoanalysis, ethnology, philology). The result is an intellectual journey in which the analysis of the discourse that the Athenian city has constructed about itself appears dominant and continuous, at the same time as the illumination of the conflict (stasis) constitutive of democracy deepens. Finally, the ever-increasing attention to the "feminine operator", understood as a factor of subversion of the political order of the city, dominated by the masculine, gives rise to an original and innovative approach to tragedy. Nicole Loraux discovers the "antipolitical" dimension of the tragic space, which allows voices excluded from civic speech to be heard.
This book brings together, in strictly chronological order, fifty-six articles written by Nicole Loraux between 1973 and 2003. It offers a reading of the discontinuous, experimental deployment of reflections readable on the same level as that of the published books, and the after-effect of the latter, their resumption on other levels - all these lines together drawing the vast cartography of a very singular work. The article "Greece outside itself and other texts", which gives its title to this collection, recalls the method by which Nicole Loraux has not ceased, in her own words, to "find in Greece (and in abundance) the means to make it come out of itself" by multiplying comparative strategies, the back and forth between the most diverse disciplinary fields (philosophy, psychoanalysis, ethnology, philology). The result is an intellectual journey in which the analysis of the discourse that the Athenian city has constructed about itself appears dominant and continuous, at the same time as the illumination of the conflict (stasis) constitutive of democracy deepens. Finally, the ever-increasing attention to the "feminine operator", understood as a factor of subversion of the political order of the city, dominated by the masculine, gives rise to an original and innovative approach to tragedy. Nicole Loraux discovers the "antipolitical" dimension of the tragic space, which allows voices excluded from civic speech to be heard.